Subject: RE: [nfsv4] ACL: Is an ACE with "ACCESS MASK == 0 " legal?

From: "Halevy, Benny" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:14:59 -0500

As I understand it, there's nothing in the protocol saying that ACCESS_MASK == 0 is invalid.
It seems useless though since it is effectively a no-op. 
 
Benny
 
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From: Wu Zheng [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:51 AM
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Cc: Ravi A Shankar; Xinya Wang; Niteesh Dubey
Subject: [nfsv4] ACL: Is an ACE with "ACCESS MASK == 0 " legal?

Should a server accept an ACL which has one or more ACEs with "ACCESS MASK == 0 " ?
Or should the server reject the ACL as an invalid argument?

Wu Zheng
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