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Re: acl_extended_file() still returning somewhat innaccurate info

To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: acl_extended_file() still returning somewhat innaccurate info
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:28:28 +1000
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 11:45:17PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> ...
> ideally XFS would not unecessarily create this attribute when the
> standard permission bits are sufficient,

Yep, that would be ideal.  It may happen eventually, but its
not really high on the priority list at the moment.

> this would perhaps save some
> small ammount of disk space as well.  failing that is it possible to
> fix acl_extended_file() to notice and ignore superflurious
> posix_acl_access attributes that are doing nothing but duplicating the
> standard mode bits?

Probably best to ask Andreas that one.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan


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