CIFS extension for Unix (fwd)

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Mon Apr 26 16:52:29 GMT 1999


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> _please_ can we add the unix exts?

Err. Why. We have working security descriptors now. Do the
unix extensions add anything ? Are there any clients that
use them ? Are we convinced that we want to legitimize
CIFS as a UNIX to UNIX protocol in some way (I'm not, I
think it's a horrid protocol :-) ?

Jeremy.

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