Re: NFS V4 attributes proposal

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From: Guy Harris (guy@netapp.com)
Date: 12/03/98-01:46:07 AM Z


From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Message-Id: <199812030746.XAA20954@tooting.netapp.com>
Subject: Re: NFS V4 attributes proposal
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 23:46:07 -0800 (PST)

> I do not understand. What is per-user?

The application to use to view files of a particular type.  It's not
the server's job to dictate to me, the user, whether I should read PDF
files with Adobe's Acroread, or with Xpdf, or with some application I
just finished writing and compiling 3 minutes ago and that the server
whence I'm fetching the file doesn't even know exists (because I just
finished compiling it 3 minutes ago, and haven't told everybody on the
planet about it yet).

That was explained in the message to which you replied:

> > I like to
> > edit my .java files with vi, my colleague on this project likes to use wily.

This was, as I remember, brought up the last time the notion of having
the server specify a file type as a program to be used to view the file,
rather than as, say, a MIME time, was suggested.


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