On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Jeremy Craven wrote:
>> It should be rare that two users try to modify the disk copy of a project
>> at the same time. In most situations filesystem permissions should prevent
>> this from happening.
>
> Not unlikely on our setup. We intentionally have extremely loose file
> permissions across our system ( and extensive NFS crossmounting) so people
> can get at each others data (e.g. to find old projects, or for
> supervisor/helpers).
To view, sure, but you don't give them write access do you?!
Brian
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