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Re: [PATCH] Add ability to print ACL's from ls


From: David Bartley
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ability to print ACL's from ls
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 03:59:07 -0700

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, having GNU 'ls' (and maybe later GNU 'chmod') use the
> platform's native syntax for ACLs does not allow the user to use the
> same commands on different platforms, and does not allow for platform
> independent scripts.

I considered this. There are at least 3 different variants of ACL's
(POSIX, NFSv4 and MacOS X) and they are generally incompatible. UMich
created patches to acl/libacl so that you could set NFS4 acl's via
getfacl/setfacl using POSIX ACL syntax [1]. However, they recommend
that you don't use them due to the formats not being fully compatible.

My motivation for writing this patch was to do away with the need for
using Solaris ls (and eventually chmod). If we were to have some sort
of platform-independent ACL format it would not be useful as
replacement for Solaris' ls since it would invariably lack some
Solaris ACL extension not common to all ACL formats. I also think that
users of a specific platform expect to see output as documented by
their platform. So for Solaris, this means the exact format specified
by Solaris' ls(1) man page; likewise for Linux's getfacl(1) man page.

[1] http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/

-- David




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