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Re: [PATCH 07/17] libnetfs: add fsys_get_children


From: Pierre Thierry
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/17] libnetfs: add fsys_get_children
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:53:41 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:11:32AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mmm, but we also want to check that the user can read all components,
> otherwise we may be revealing directory entries which the user was not
> supposed to find out.

That's not the behaviour on Linux and I've always found it desirable:
I can give someone access to a directory within a tree they cannot
discover.

Quickly,
Pierre Thierry
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