Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
- Subject: Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
- From: Creed Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:47:11 -0700
On May 13, 2005, at 10:40 PM, Steve Gehrman wrote:
So, you would rather an app just silently fail?
I would rather the app fail with reasonable and responsible error
reporting. Whatever happened to "pre-flighting" an operation to see
if you can do it successfully?
If authenticated file copying was built into the Core APIs, then
all apps that needed to copy or move a file would be trustworthy.
Wrong! Authenticated copying says nothing of the trustworthiness of
the application. All it says is the user knows a shared secret and
such knowledge is taken implicitly as sufficient trust for the
operation. An application should not assume the user can authenticate
to raise his privledges. Better to deny access to files the user does
not have permissions for.
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