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From: Dmitry Golubovsky <golubovsky@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Is the go9p project still maintained?
Date: Sat,  6 Dec 2014 00:10:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADiAo4LRpODrD0k3_fYiLZDtqLrqmJBuE0YaMWBBuZrEWQbv-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi

Thanks to everybody who answered. I posted another comment to the issue 34

https://code.google.com/p/go9p/issues/detail?id=34#c2

where explained the use case and provided the diagnostics for the problem.

Briefly, the problem is: when using 9p kernel mounts in Linux over a
domain socket, a 9p server program never gets a valid numeric user ID,
just -1 regardless of the username.

Even if there was a way to pass desired numeric UID to a 9p server,
this would make little sense in case of a remote connection because on
the remote system the same user would have different (and often
unknown numeric ID).

So even in the .u mode, fallback character username recognition is
necessary to use if no valid numeric user ID can be provided.

Thanks.

--
Dmitry Golubovsky

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-06  5:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-06  5:10 Dmitry Golubovsky [this message]
2014-12-06  5:32 ` lucio
2014-12-06  5:39 ` Latchesar Ionkov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-12-05  2:50 Dmitry Golubovsky
2014-12-05  3:02 ` mischief
2014-12-05  5:53 ` lucio
2014-12-05  6:49   ` minux
2014-12-05 18:06 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2014-12-05 18:35   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-06  1:24   ` mischief

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