[dcc2] MultiFile Transfer Headers [file permissions]
Phoenix Fyrestar
miyako_houou at comcast.net
Fri Apr 30 23:50:21 EDT 2004
ok, going to reply to all the file permission emails at once
File permissions could potentially be usefull, but in the end I agree that the
security issues and difficulty of implimentation definitely outweighs the
possible benefits.
An executable bit might be the most usefull feature but it could lead to major
rsecurity issues (someone has ./ in their path and gets sent a file named ls
for example)
Date/Timestamps I think can be really usefull for version controll, but I
think most of the time if version controll is that important someone will be
using cvs instead anyway.
although the ISO standard might be a little harder to parse, I think we should
still consider it for the benefit of being compliant.
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