[dev] Permissions inheritance

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Richard Wallace <rwallace at thewallacepack.net>:

> A simple question for you.  I always thought that child permissions
> inherited settings from their parents.  But I just ran a test to try and
> confirm this and it seems that they don't.

Right.

> So, are child permissions supposed to inherit parent permissions or am I
> going to have to programatically maintain this relationship?

Right now they're not supposed to. There are definitely reasons to make 
it work
that way by default, and reasons not to. A patch that introduced an option to
turn checking parent permissions on would definitely be considered.

-chuck

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