Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:01:05 -0400
"Robert Blair Mason Jr." <rbmj@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> I understand OSX doesn't help anyone here... perhaps someone could
> request an implementation of this command in the mount source code?
> It seems simple - just check if the filesystem has noowners set and if
> so, instead of fetching permissions from disk, return -rwxrwxrwx. But
> these things are never as simple as they seem...
>
Actually, a quick skim over the mount(8) source code shows that all of
the changes would actually have to be done in the mount(2) source code
- which I believe is in the kernel :(
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rbmj
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