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author | Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> | 2016-10-27 13:51:59 -0700 |
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committer | Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> | 2016-10-27 13:57:19 -0700 |
commit | 131955ff7c7e2f32ea152cdf8cba782fb836bbe8 (patch) | |
tree | c26bbfcf7c2b14e7223850dce7f2ec82d03cd806 /include/fuse.h | |
parent | 11f07d10339500044718f6cea9f1fa1bc6428051 (diff) | |
download | libfuse-131955ff7c7e2f32ea152cdf8cba782fb836bbe8.tar.gz |
Recommend when to use -o default_permissions automatically
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/fuse.h b/include/fuse.h index 312818e..ff1475d 100644 --- a/include/fuse.h +++ b/include/fuse.h @@ -280,13 +280,13 @@ struct fuse_config { * init and destroy are special purpose methods, without which a full * featured filesystem can still be implemented. * - * Almost all operations take a path which can be of any length. - * - * Changed in fuse 2.8.0 (regardless of API version) - * Previously, paths were limited to a length of PATH_MAX. + * In general, all methods are expected to perform any necessary + * permission checking. However, a filesystem may delegate this task + * to the kernel by passing the `default_permissions` mount option to + * `fuse_new()`. In this case, methods will only be called if + * the kernel's permission check has succeeded. * - * See http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/ for more information. There - * is also a snapshot of the relevant wiki pages in the doc/ folder. + * Almost all operations take a path which can be of any length. */ struct fuse_operations { /** Get file attributes. |