errno return for setting acls

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errno return for setting acls

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Subject:	errno return for setting acls
From:	Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 1 May 2002 04:55:22 -0800
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XFS seems to return EACCES instead of EPERM when a user tries to
set/alter an acl on a file they don't own.  from looking at the
withdrawn posix spec i believe it should be EPERM, and that is more
consistent with the equivilent; chmod.

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Ethan Benson
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