Hello andrew.

24 Jun 04 06:48, you wrote to me:

 ac> Wed 2004-06-23 06:35, Jasen Betts (3:640/1042) wrote to andrew
 ac> clarke:

 JB>> so far you've proven that you can change the attributes of a
 JB>> ordinary directory

 JB>> mount something dos, or windows-like in there. (even a floppy, or
 JB>> image-file will do) and look at the ownwership and permissions on
 JB> JB>> the files.

 ac> As I expected, they inherited the permissions of the mount point...

hmm. it doesn't do that here.  here the dos mount gets the owner and group
of whoever runs mount.

 ac> 7:02 root{at}blizzard [~]#vnconfig /dev/vn0c dosdisk.img
 ac> 7:02 root{at}blizzard [~]#mount -t msdos /dev/vn0c /mnt/windows

hmm, is that linux?  I've not seen vnconfig before. old version used
losetup instead, but now images cand be mounted with an option to mount.
(-o loop)

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