From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 06:23:07 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090605062307.71296ee0.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: References: <20090605005830.be53830c.eekee57@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Drawterm /mnt/term permissions issue Topicbox-Message-UUID: 04b656d4-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:23:08 -0700 Russ Cox wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > I run a plan 9 cpu server in Qemu and use drawterm to connect from the Linux host. > > I thought the /mnt/term mechanism would be very convenient for exchanging files > > between host & guest, but the guest sees all user/group names as > > unknown/unknown, preventing writing. > > That's surprising. Drawterm isn't going around enforcing > permission bits: if it can write, it writes. What it shows > you in ls is what it gets from stat, but it doesn't rely on > that to make decisions about what you can open. It just > tries to open it. Oh now I get it: drawterm isn't enforcing permissions but the plan 9 kernel is, on seeing a dir with user/group = unknown/unknown and perms bits = 755 it won't allow creation within that dir. At least, I assume that's what's going on. -- Ethan Grammatikidis The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer