Trash spec 0.2, technical questions

Jerry Haltom jhaltom at feedbackplusinc.com
Tue Aug 31 18:14:00 EEST 2004


What about permissions of this top-level .Trash directory?

If it is created by the first user to use the trash, then that user will
own it.

Also, it'd be important to keep in mind some situations with complex ACLs,
where in the umask is dictated by the default ACL and not by the process's
umask. In these cases, it may be possible for the first user to create
.Trash to not be able to give permissions to other users.

There is a lot of things which I think are more complex than are warranted
by making subdirectory's vs Nautilus' .Trash-${user} design.

Again, what any of these cases bring to the table to admins is "make sure
to set up permissions right for your trash cans" which would be a bit
annoying. ;)




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