From: Greg Farnum <gregf@hq.newdream.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:41:04 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: mon: addition to MonCaps docs mentioning how perms are used
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mon: addition to MonCaps docs mentioning how perms are used
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diff --git a/src/mon/MonCaps.h b/src/mon/MonCaps.h
index 63cb76e5e78d..fe6cc5570ab6 100644
--- a/src/mon/MonCaps.h
+++ b/src/mon/MonCaps.h
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
  * "allow rw service_name" (which allows reading and writing to the named
  *                          service type)
  * "allow *" (which allows full access to EVERYTHING)
+ *
+ * When the monitor is checking permissions, besides the obvious read and write
+ * it generally equates having an execute permission with being of the
+ * associated type. So, in instances where it only wants to receive a
+ * certain kind of message from OSDs, it will require a MON_CAP_X on
+ * PAXOS_OSDMAP.
  */
 
 #ifndef __MONCAPS_H