On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Chris Dillon wrote:

> I'm probably being extremely naive myself, but I just envisioned a
> scenario like this (pardon me if someone else has already suggested
> this):
> 
> When a filesystem is mounted as foreign (HOW that is determined I
> won't talk about), every file in the filesytem has its credentials
> mapped to that of the mountpoint.  File mode bits are not remapped in
> any way.  New files gain the credentials of their _foreign_ parent.
> 
> That's the skinny.  Now I'll give a (much longer) example to clarify.

Sounds fine, except I'd have the owner & group passed in in the initial
mount, rather than taken from "the mount point". :-)

Take care,

Bill