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Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a
> "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable
> permission bits would actually correspond to the executability
> of a file? I mean, an explorer-created empty file is definitely not
> executable - notably because it's empty.
With ntsec on, stat() and friends report the permission bits set in
the ACL. I wouldn't want to see anything else. The code using the
mount info is only used when ntsec is off.
Corinna
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