Subject: Re: [nfsv4] open share modes and file permissions

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:16:58 -0500

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:46:39PM -0500, bfields wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been discussed before.
> 
> Should a client need particular file permissions in order to open with
> DENY bits?  Does anyone know what the Windows behavior is, and what
> other server implementations do?
> 
> (The linux server is almost certainly wrong--it's requiring write
> permissions for DENY_WRITE but not for DENY_READ.)

To answer my own question--looks like the Windows behavior is to require
write permissions for DENY_READ, and that's what I'm fixing the Linux
server to do.

--b.