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Re: ACL documentation

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Subject: Re: ACL documentation
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:52:05 +0200
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At 20:11 11-6-2001 +0200, you wrote:

> Is there any documentation that explains in details how XFS ACL
> work ? I've read acl(4) (or acl(5) as it's named in the Linux
> port) but it leaves too many things unsaid.
>
> For instance,
> - what is the mask field for ?
> - exactly how do chmod and chacl interfere with each other ?
> - after chacl, the perms look like ---abc--- where abc is the
>   value of the mask. What is that supposed to mean ?
> - exactly who has what rights w.r.t. ACLs ?

take a look at http://acl.bestbits.at/pre and get the posix 1003.1e
draft.
It should have all the details you are looking for.

...Juergen

Link added to FAQ.


--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.


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