Re: Status of posix-ACL's

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:30:11 -0500 (EST)


Jochen Dolze writes:

> i found at http://acl.bestbits.at the ACL-linux-project. Now i want to know,
> if there is a plan to integrate posix-ACLs into the fs-part of the kernel,
> e.g. into the VFS-Layer? Is there a general discussion about this anywhere?
> What are the biggest problems? (i know that many userland-tools must be
> changed for this).

I hope not. POSIX ACLs are crap. NFSv4 mostly follows NT.
Compatibility with NFSv4 and SMB (Samba's protocol) is important.

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