On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 07:48, kend@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Howdy, all -- I'm doing some research, and was wondering if anyone can
> give me a quick-n-dirty summary of why ACLs took so long to be included by
> Linus. I believe it had to do with elevation of user privs., but I'd
> prefer to have it from the horse's mouth, as it were.
>
> Thanks for any info...
>
Quite simply, everyone had a different opinion. Linus was not interested
until there was some form of consensus. There were several digressions
along the way when Hans Reiser tried to introduce some vast scheme to
reinvent filesystems so that files had multiple forks. And truth be
known, Linus has not included the code to enable acls yet. Everything
is there but the last link in the chain. Extended attributes are there
in full though.
Steve
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