On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 22:17, Ian McKellar wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 06:17, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> >
> > Ian McKellar said:
> >
> > > it will also need to expose this GNOME_VFS_PERM_ACCESS_* API so that
> > > apps who don't care about the details can find out what they want.
> >
> > That's what I wanted to say: I would like to at least deprecate (if not
> > forbid) using the permissions member directly in favour of using
> > setter/getter functions for two reasons:
> >
> [snip: redundancy, legacy helper]
>
> We have the GnomeVFSFileInfoFields enum that lets a module and/or
> GnomeVFS explain to higher levels which parts of the FileInfo struct are
> valid, so on filesystems that use ACLs rather than unix-style
> permissions the unix permissions bit will not be set but the ACLs bit
> will. Almost all apps (the exceptions being things like Nautilus that
> are designed for inspecting the fileystem closely) will just look at the
> PERM_ACCESS_* field and so won't care how permissions are done on the
> filesystem.
Ahh, that clarifies this for me. I should have look at what I want to
meddle with a bit closer, eh?
Nils
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