On 10.11.2005 23:47, "Mike Kluev" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> According to <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/fl/fl_37.html>, opening
>> files on read-only volumes with fsRdWrPerm of fsWrPerm should succeed,
>> falling back to read/deny-write or similar. Ancient documentation, but still
>> true for some file systems (AFP, but not SMB, rdar://3755430).
>
> That's true as of remote AFP volumes, it is not the case with local
> volumes, see below.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious - of course, "read/deny-write" doesn't
apply to anything but AFP directly. Yet, the end result is the same -
opening may succeed, even though the file is effectifely read-only.
> Yep, the technote is interesting and somewhat ancient. It lacks
> one important translation: file manager model <-> bsd model, the
> translation that could change the whole story quite dramatically.
And trying to write such a spec would likely discover a number of
inconsistencies in the current implementation :)
- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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