[PVFS-developers] Possible permissions handling bug

[Nathan Poznick]

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Thus spake Murali Vilayannur:
> Hi Nathan,
>=20
> Could you please try the attached patch (against current CVS tree) and let
> us know if it solves the problem?
> The patch essentially teaches meta_access() to retry (on failure of
> course) with all group id's to which a particular user belongs to.
> On my setup (NIS), this seems to fix the particular test-case that
> you described. Hopefully, this should not cause other side-affects.
> Thanks,
> Murali

That worked!  Thanks for the quick response.  Is it safe to assume this
will make its way into the CVS tree at some point?  As always, if I have
any other problems, I'll report them :-)


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Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>

A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. -Nicolas
Boileau-Despraux


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