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Re: [PATCH] file-has-acl: revert unintended change in behavior of ls -L


From: Kamil Dudka
Subject: Re: [PATCH] file-has-acl: revert unintended change in behavior of ls -L
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:56:05 +0200
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Hi Jim,

On Mon October 3 2011 12:45:01 Jim Meyering wrote:
> Can you describe how to make "ls -L" misbehave without this patch?

if you have a symlink to a file with ACL, 'ls -Ll' does not print the '+'
at end of the column with permission bits.

> I.e., if there isn't already a test in coreutils to exercise this,
> I'd like to add one.

Ok, will have a look if there is a similar test exercising ACLs in coreutils.

> Also, if you can reference a bugzilla number, that would be nice.
> Looks like it's this one:
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/720325

This is the bugzilla mentioned in the original commit, which introduced the 
bug.  There is no separate bugzilla ID for the change in behavior that this 
patch reverts.

Kamil



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