Re: Could svn_backend check permissions?

On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:21, Philip Martin wrote:
> - In normal use a user needs to be able to create new log files,
> verifying that this is possible involves checking directory
> permissions all the way back to root.

Really? If we can stat() the directory at all, then only the mode bits
on that directory should affect whether we can create files there.

(Of course, if the repository is in AFS, our permissions-checking is
just going to get in the way. I don't know how well BDB 4 databases in
AFS work.)

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Received on Fri Sep 5 21:47:28 2003