Arla 0.3.5.11, Mac OS X 10.2.6 Finder

Massimo Marino Massimo_Marino at lbl.gov
Sat Sep 13 09:18:03 CEST 2003


Hi Harald,

thanks for your reply.

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 06:01  PM, Harald Barth wrote:

>
> This is because the finder tries to interpret the result of
> stat() instead of using access(). You can work around by
> maching your uid and your pts id or by chaning the
> permission bits (with chmod) that do not matter in AFS.

Tried that. No true results. Wrong behavior the same.
>
>> Is there a cure?
>
> There is a workaround but the cure is in changing the Finder and as I
> understood from people who actually talked to folks at Apple, the
> Finder devellopers didn't want to change it because "it is not a bug
> if you use our file system and it is faster". I think this is a silly
> argument because it breaks the file system API. It is OK to do so in
> your own backyard, but if you leave your own backyard (AFS, NFS) you
> should stick to the rules.
>
> If you are annoyed by the Finder's behaviour and you have support on
> MacOS, I'd suggest you give Apple a bug report, so they have something
> to think about ;-)
>
> Harald.
>






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