Re: [Gnu-arch-users] BUG: feature request: 'tla chmod' which 'touch'es files

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 11:53, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 07:48, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > 
> >>Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Yes, but I thought I was referring to revlibs - anyway, how do you
> >>>solve this for shared revlibs, which is the point I'm getting at ?
> >>
> >>How about a read-only NFS mount?
> > 
> > 
> > Exactly.
> > 
> > So, arch must handle file perms outside of the file itself.
> 
> No.  Read-only mounting has no effect on the file permissions.

Ahh, of course, now that I think about it.

Anyway, why is a read only mount a good solution for a shared revlib?
I would want to avoid nfs wherever possible - I currently have three
users (me, coworker, and "stable" arch tree/user) on same box, so
why would I want to use nfs just to get some read-only attribute.
And in my case, it's a greedy revlib, so each user needs to be able
to write to it too... isn't that the whole point of a revlib?

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