On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 11:01 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> Say you want to lookup a path /foo/bar/baz, then the access permission
> is based on the following things:
> 
>  - the credentials of the user.  let's only take traditional uid/gid
>    for this example although credentials are much more complex these
>    days
>  - the kind of operation you want to perform
>  - the access permission of the actual object the path points to (inode)
>  - the lookup permission (x bit) for every object on the way to you object

   - your private namespace particularities (submounts etc)

Trond

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