Modified Access Checks for CIFS [PSARC/2007/403 FastTrack timeout 07/16/2007]

[Don Cragun]

>Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:53:38 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Tim Haley - Sun Microsystem <timh at spidey.central.sun.com>
 ... ... ...
>EXPORTED INTERFACE TABLE
>
>			|Proposed	|Specified	|
>			|Stability	|in what	|
>Interface Name		|Classification |Document?	| Comments
>===============================================================================
> 			|Consolidation	|This		| 
> VFSFT_ACEMASKONACCESS	|Private	|Document	| Registerable vfs
> 			|		|		| feature
>			|		|		|
> ATTR_NOACLCHECK	|		|		| New flag for VOPs
>			|		|		| that modify/retrieve
>			|		|		| attributes and ACLs
>			|		|		|
> V_ACE_MASK		|		|		| New VOP_ACCESS() flag
>			|		|		| to accept an ACE-style
> 			|		|		| access mask.
>			|		|		|
> V_APPEND		|		|		| New VOP_ACCESS() flag
>			|		|		| to check for ACE-
>			|		|		| enforced append-only
>			|		|		| access

With of these new filesystem specific features being added, shouldn't
new *pathconf() variables and getconf path_vars also be added to allow
applications to determine if they can make use of these features in
particular places in the file hierarchy?

 - Don