> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> wrote: > >> > Back a year ago or so, I ran the following test against Ganesha: > >> > > >> > http://www.tuxera.com/community/posix-test-suite/ > >> > > >> > On NFS v4, one of the issues it tripped over was execute only files. > >> > Apparently the Linux v4 client doesn't make ACCESS calls in > >> > conjunction with an open system call, with the result that you can > >> > open an execute only file (per RFC 3530bis, the server is allowing > >> > such to allow clients to execute executables). > >> > >> That information is outdated. A wireshark dump should show that > >> recent Linux kernels include an ACCESS operation as part of the > >> open() COMPOUND and that it uses that information to distinguish > >> between executable and read access permissions. > > > > Oh, cool, do you know when that went in? I'll go look and see if I can find > it... > > > > It should be a feature of Linux 3.7 (Dec 2012) and newer kernels. Ah, of course we're trying on Fedora 18 with 3.6.10 kernel... Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
