[SCM] Samba Shared Repository - branch master updated

Björn Jacke bjacke at samba.org
Tue Dec 8 13:32:17 MST 2009


The branch, master has been updated
       via  3609c74... s3:doc: make dos filetimes description less contradictory
      from  0d53ce7... s3: make sys_posix_fallocate more generic

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=master


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commit 3609c7433d17d78aceb1806340f53f7a2e23c9e8
Author: Björn Jacke <bj at sernet.de>
Date:   Tue Dec 8 21:32:51 2009 +0100

    s3:doc: make dos filetimes description less contradictory

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Summary of changes:
 docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/dosfiletimes.xml |    8 +++-----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


Changeset truncated at 500 lines:

diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/dosfiletimes.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/dosfiletimes.xml
index 90f93a0..423b13c 100644
--- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/dosfiletimes.xml
+++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/misc/dosfiletimes.xml
@@ -6,12 +6,10 @@
 	<para>Under DOS and Windows, if a user can write to a 
 	file they can change the timestamp on it. Under POSIX semantics, 
 	only the owner of the file or root may change the timestamp. By 
-	default, Samba runs with POSIX semantics and refuses to change the 
+	default, Samba emulates the DOS semantics and allows to change the 
 	timestamp on a file if the user <command moreinfo="none">smbd</command> is acting 
-	on behalf of is not the file owner. Setting this option to <constant>
-	yes</constant> allows DOS semantics and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
-	<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> will change the file 
-	timestamp as DOS requires. Due to changes in Microsoft Office 2000 and beyond,
+	on behalf has write permissions.
+	Due to changes in Microsoft Office 2000 and beyond,
 	the default for this parameter has been changed from "no" to "yes" in Samba 3.0.14
 	and above. Microsoft Excel will display dialog box warnings about the file being
 	changed by another user if this parameter is not set to "yes" and files are being


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