Re: ShadowFS (status)

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de> writes:

> Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> 
> > IIRC, the current implementation by Moritz does the lookup itself
> > and returns the appropriate port as if it were its own.
> 
> If the user looks up a directory, he gets a port to a directory node,
> which is managed by shadowfs. If the user looks up a file, he directly
> gets a port to _that_ file, not a port to shadowfs.

Right, but he should get that port by doing a retry, not by having
shadowfs look it up in the real directory.  Importantly, that would
get the permissions wrong.