On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Sunder wrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Jim Choate wrote:
Transitive means that A mounts B, C mounts A and gets B free. Plan 9 does this, managed by a set of authorization layers for fine control, native.
This could be bad. Say B doesn't want to allow access to C for its file systems. Then what? Any mechanisms to prevent A from resharing it? It's also bad depending on how it's implemented.
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