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

[Miklos Szeredi]

> > Aren't there some assumptions in VFS that currently make this
> > impossible?
> 
> I believe it's OK with VFS, but applications would be confused to death.
> Well, there really is one issue -- dentries have exactly one parent, so
> what do you do when opening a file with hardlinks as a directory? (In
> fact IIRC that is what lead to all the funny talk about mountpoints,
> since they don't have this limitation)

OK, that makes sense.

It would be quite interesting to see how applications react.  Maybe
I'll hack something up :)

Thanks,
Miklos
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