.gvfs

[Paul Fox]

mathieu wrote:
 > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 02:11, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
 > >
 > > When the gfvs is actually mounted (which it seems to be even when
 > > Sugar is running, not Gnome), ls and du give errors when run on the
 > > home directory (even as root).
 > >
 > > It would be nice if standard UNIX utilities didn't barf on Gnome's
 > > extensions.
 > 
 > And it's the case (as my user) :
 > $ ll .gvfs/
 > total 4
 > drwx------. 1 mathieu mathieu 4096 2009-10-29 22:38 sftp for bochecha
 > on fedorapeople.org
 > 
 > Of course, as root :
 > # ll /home/mathieu/.gvfs
 > ls: cannot access /home/mathieu/.gvfs: Permission denied
 > 
 > This is expected. See this thread :
 > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/34333#5
 > 
 > Towards the end, someone called Fred explains it pretty well.

i would say fred was doing well until he got to the end, and
misspelled "bug" as "limitation".  if it keeps root out, it's
broken.

paul
=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org