Re: Problem with find + AFS + acl="l"

[Daniel Richard G.]

On Wed, 2006 Nov 01 20:58:21 +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> 
> If we see a DT_UNKNOWN before anything else in a directory, we
> wouldn't know whether to assume it's a directory or not, unless we had
> previously seen a DT_DIR for "." or "..".

I take it there's a good reason for not using scandir(), with a custom sort 
function... always forcing "."/".." to the top seems like it would make 
life easier.

> >If not, it might be sufficient to check if the directory's canonical
> >path is under /afs. (You're never going to have AFS mounted on e.g. /usr
> >or /mnt/afs.)
> 
> It's not always possible to figure out the canonical path (for example
> if a parent of the start point has no execute permission).

AFS in many respects disregards the Unix mode bits, giving primacy to ACLs. 
If you could enumerate the ways in which a canonical path might not be 
obtainable, I can test to see if any of them apply to AFS.


--Daniel


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