Re: [RFC] FUSE permission modell (Was: fuse review bits)

[Miklos Szeredi]

> If the user wants to edit a read-only file in a tgz owned by himself,
> why can he not _chmod_ the file and _then_ edit it?
> 
> That said, I would _usually_ prefer that when I enter a tgz, that I
> see all component files having the same uid/gid/permissions as the tgz
> file itself - the same as I'd see if I entered a zip file.

I can accept that usually you are not interested in the stored
uid/gid.  But doubt that you want to lose permission information when
you mount a tar file.  Zip is a different kettle of fish since that
doesn't contain uid/gid/permissions.

Miklos
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