Re: [Gnu-arch-users] extended attributes

[Florian Weimer]

Tom Lord wrote:

> To be more specific: ACLs have a semantics which permits them to be
> treated correctly by standard unix filesystem calls.  A mime-type
> attribute would not.

Isn't this sort of a red herring?

Users aren't interested in system calls, but in application behavior.
The system call interface is not sufficiently abstract to hide ACLs from
applications (including cp), so application won't automagically behave
in the right way (coreutils needed patching, too).