From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>,
	Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p plumber
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Date: Sat,  4 Mar 2006 16:34:36 -0600
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i forgot about this. this check is only executed if $NAMESPACE
is not set. (that is, when deriving the namespace from $DISPLAY.)

- erik

erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> writes

|
| interesting, lib9/getns.c has this code:
|
| ; grep -C 5 0777 $home/cvs/plan9/src/lib9/getns.c
| 	if((d->mode&0777) != 0700 || strcmp(d->uid, getuser()) != 0){
| 		werrstr("bad name space dir %s", p);
| 		free(p);
| 		free(d);
| 		return nil;
| 	}
| 	free(d);
| 	return p;
| }
|
| "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com> writes
|
| |
| | > make sure the permissions on the directory are 700.
| | > it won't work without that.
| |
| | not true.  all mine are mode 755 (i've never even looked before)
| | and it works for me.
| |
| | russ