Comment 3 for bug 1620635

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Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote :

After thinking this through some more and discussing with John Johansen, the current query interface is not sufficient to support querying of permissions granted by owner file rules. The reason is that, when dealing with owner file rules, the decision to allow or not depends on two objects. The first is the file itself and the second is the UID associated with the process accessing the file. The current query interface only knows about the file and the UID associated with the process doing the *query*. The process doing the query is almost never the same as the process attempting to access the file.