luke@tasis.utas.oz (Luke Visser) (08/05/88)
Ahh ha, found another bug in AppleShare. This one is a pretty obscure bug
but it's nuisance value is pretty high.
If a user submits a folder into a drop folder from a MFS volume (only checked
for a 400K MFS disk but I suspect it's true for any MFS volume), then he/she
retains ownership of that folder. This is not true for HFS volumes as the
ownership of the folder becomes that of the owner of the drop folder.
One other cosmetic effect of MFS volumes is that this submitted folder is
not placed in the standard place. When something is placed in a folder
it is put in the next available slot in the window of the contents with
overflow being placed below the current contents. With submitting from
MFS volumes they are placed to the left of the contents.
I said obscure and that's pretty well it, I only picked up the problem when
we couldn't look at some files submitted by a student. The real nuisance
value comes because the only person who can change the ownership of the
folder is the original user (there better be a super-user equivilent in the
next version of AppleShare or I'll *Spit the dummy*).
The superficial solutions is obvious, don't use MFS volumes. However, when
many students are using the setup one can't keep an eye on all those minor
details. The actual bug fix I won't even guess at, I've read the File
Manager but am not conversant with it.
Luke Visser.
P.S. WHEN IS APPLESHARE VERSION 2.0 GOING TO BE AVAILABLE!!!!!! (IN
AUS OF COURSE.)
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