2007/616 - Winchester update for diagonal ID mapping

[Darren J Moffat]

Gary Winiger wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this fast track for David Maxera.  It proposes
> to update the Winchester ID mapping service to resolve an
> incompatibility between the POSIX and Windows views of users
> and groups.
> The idmap(1M) interface taxonomy remains unchanged as Uncommitted.
> This case requests a Patch release binding which is compatible
> with the Winchester release binding.
> 
> The project team indicated they are under some time pressure.
> This seems straight forward to me, so I've set the timer for
> 3 days from now, Friday 26 Oct, 2007.  As always more time
> is granted if there are issues.

I don't see any issues in this case, for me it read as borderline closed 
approved automatic given that CIFS hasn't integrated yet.

As an aside I personally prefer the Windows model that file owners can 
be a group rather than the POSIX model and it is good to see that we can 
now support this for CIFS.

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Darren J Moffat