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From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Creating new mail users; mail -c
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:24:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61003221424j77534f93te1d7d56a9087964c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44e316d676994d41d7b0811b31da8b08@brasstown.quanstro.net>

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>wrote:

> On Mon Mar 22 16:22:15 EDT 2010, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> > It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., being able to
> > create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files.
>
> i considered modifying the fileserver to do something similar
> for nupas.  perhaps reusing the 'a' bit.  but in the end, i didn't
> do it as we weren't having a problem.  i use the mode 773 for
> mailboxes which can be delivered to by other users and 700
> for mailboxes which can't be delivered to by other users.  denying
> read access at least makes it annoying to guess all the mail files
> in the mbox.
>
> (thanks to anthony for a recent fix to splitmbox.)
>
> russ had a specific objection to "append" directories.  i don't
> recall how the argument went.
>

Is it because you can bind in new stuff to a directory if you need it?


>
> - erik
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22  3:53 Anthony Sorace
2010-03-22  5:40 ` Russ Cox
2010-03-22 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-22 14:50   ` roger peppe
2010-03-22 20:20     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2010-03-22 20:55       ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-22 21:24         ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-03-22 21:29           ` erik quanstrom

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