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?


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> - erik
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