At 12:25 PM +0930 8/18/99, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>On 18-Aug-99 Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
> >    Joe doesn't use the shell.  The Finder will do this for him; when
> >  you insert a floppy in Mac OS, it gets mounted and shows up on your
> >  desktop.  This is the case with all media.
>
>Yes... Why is this a FreeBSD problem then? I would have thought it would be up
>to MacOS to do the UID remapping (I must be missing something)

The question is being sent to several different BSD groups.  One of
the newer BSD's being MacOS X (Ten) from Apple (follow on to NeXTSTEP,
except that it's a much more MacOS-ish as far as the user interface).
MacOS X (Ten) Server already uses code from FreeBSD, NetBSD, and
OpenBSD.  This isn't a freebsd problem per se, but wouldn't it be
nice if Apple went with a solution that made sense to the other
BSD groups?  (particularly if someone in *BSD-land has already
thought about the same issues).

Some of Apple's OS-level changes have been donated back to the BSD
groups, and if they implement a good solution to this problem then
the other BSD's might want to pick it up.  It's nice to see them
asking for ideas before casting some implementation in stone...


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