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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_lowlevel.h | |
parent | 11f07d10339500044718f6cea9f1fa1bc6428051 (diff) | |
download | libfuse-131955ff7c7e2f32ea152cdf8cba782fb836bbe8.tar.gz |
Recommend when to use -o default_permissions automatically
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diff --git a/include/fuse_lowlevel.h b/include/fuse_lowlevel.h index f876975..503b682 100644 --- a/include/fuse_lowlevel.h +++ b/include/fuse_lowlevel.h @@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ struct fuse_forget_data { * after the call has returned, so if they are needed later, their * contents have to be copied. * + * 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_session_new()`. In this case, methods will only be called if + * the kernel's permission check has succeeded. + * * The filesystem sometimes needs to handle a return value of -ENOENT * from the reply function, which means, that the request was * interrupted, and the reply discarded. For example if |