PERFORCE change 146774 for review

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 6 15:57:40 UTC 2008


Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=146774
> 
> Change 146774 by trasz at trasz_traszkan on 2008/08/06 14:12:37
> 
> 	Ignore "append" permission - use "write_data" instead - on regular
> 	files to match SunOS (and ZFS) behaviour.

I always thought the reason for a separate  "append"
bit was to protect files such as log files by allowing
them to be appended but not overwritten.

Maybe Sun is wrong here?
Does the NFS4 spec say anything about this?

Tim


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