Re: Possible permissions bug on NFSv3 kernel client

[Pascal Schmidt]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:50:06 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

>> ...so that the the MODIFY and EXTEND bits aren't set when writing to a
>> block or character device.
>
> Hmm... Why shouldn't the MODIFY bit at least be set if the user
> requested write access to the device?

It's somewhat of a mixed-up situation for device nodes exported via
NFSv3. Permission bits are on the server, but the actual write does
not happen via NFS (as v3 WRITE only works on regular files).

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal
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