Re: ACL complexity

[Bruno Haible]

Ondrej Valousek wrote:
> Well, I was thinking about it as well, see how nicely the OpenSolaris/OmniOS 
> does it using it's -V option:
> root@omnios:/mnt# ls -lV acl
> -rw-r--r--+  1 root     root           5 Jan  4 09:11 acl
>             user:ondrej:rwx-----------:-------:allow
>                  owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:-------:allow
>                  group@:r-----a-R-c--s:-------:allow
>               everyone@:r-----a-R-c--s:-------:allow

That's nice. Indeed a tabular presentation helps in making the behaviour
understandable.

> maybe we could reuse some of the code from there (not sure about the legal 
> stuff).

This table-like printout should be easy to program; no need to copy code if
that code is not under GPL.

Bruno