[linux-cifs-client] [RFC PATCH] CIFS posix acl permission checking

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:17:34 +0100
Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:09:11AM +0100, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > > Wouldn't that be something worth considering?
> > > 
> > > This world work, but protocol cleanliness-wise it's
> > > *really* horrible :-).
> > 
> > Agreed. :-)
> 
> But what's the alternative? Let NFS go and do that piece
> better forever? :-)
> 
> Volker

Establish sessions as needed, based on a user's own credentials and
have the kernel use that session/tcon combinaton instead of those
established at mount time. My goal is to have a prototype of this to
present at SambaXP, but I may have an initial set of patches in the
next few weeks.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>