Re: [fuse-devel] Various API questions

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi <mi...@sz...> writes:
> >>>>  - Am I correct that the access() function is never called if I use
> >>>>    -o default_permissions?
> >>>
> >>> No, it's still called for access(2) and for chdir(2).
> >> 
> >> Is there a way to pass this on to the "usual" implementations? It
> >> seems silly to be to reimplement this, because my filesystem delivers
> >> completely ordinary uid,gid and mode values.
> >
> > Yes, the 'default_permissions' mount option will do that, and then
> > ->access() will never be called.
> 
> Now I'm a bit confused. Above you said that access() *will* be called
> for chdir(2) and access(2), even if 'default_permissions' is set. So
> what is true now?

Sorry, I missed the "if I use -o default_permissions" part in your
original question, so my original answer was of course wrong.
->access() will not be called with 'default_permissions'.

Miklos