[Bug 202192] x11-fm/thunar 1.6.11 change file permissions on SSHFS-mounted files/directories

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202192

--- Comment #28 from Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Ivan Rozhuk from comment #27)

I understand your frustration but the issues you point out are all very edge
cases.

As you state sshfs is abandoned upstream, I would not expect other projects to
care much for it's peculiarities (most of your problems stem from sshfs not
properly mapping remote system information to the local virtual file system it
privides. 

Thunar intentionally implemented logic to know if permissions can be modified
(again this is different from writable, please don't mix unrelated things), you
can't expect upstream to remove intentional functionality to cater to edge
cases.

If you really want to improve upstream software you need to propose patches
that at least don't change behaviour for the main/most common case (local
filesystems, in this case).

You could propose a configuration option, but obviously implementing that
requires much more work, so I'd investigate with upstream if it is acceptable
in principle. Expect the process of getting this kind of change included
upstream to take months with various iterations of the patches.

There is no other way to get patches, especially big ones like this, accepted
in upstream projects without spending this kind of effort.

Anyway the ports tree is not the place to perform original development
especially to this kind of extent, I'm unable to review such patches, and this
would cause the port to diverge too much from upstream.

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