hi folks,
I've just checked in a bunch of code below the cmd/acl2 directory.
This is source derived from Andreas Gruenbachers POSIX ACL source
(http://acl.bestbits.at/) with changes for migrating current XFS
users over to that source (eg. chacl) and the current version of
this weeks extended attributes system call interface.
This is not generally useful and is not ready for "prime time" use.
It's in the same basket as the stuff in cmd/attr2, basically - ie.
it will change alot as we move closer to the "one true" EA syscall
interface, and we hope eventually to have a single POSIX ACL source
this way.
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If you currently use ACLs on XFS, you should keep on using the ACL
packages we've provided - and the code below the cmd/acl directory.
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There is a cmd/acl2/BIG.FAT.WARNING file, as with cmd/attr2 - please
don't try to use this code or report problems with it just yet. You
are welcome to participate in the EA discussion on linux-kernel, of
course, and you can track our progress on trying to get Linus to
accept some of the kernel interface changes we need for this to work,
(follow the code changes in cmd/{acl2,attr2} if you are interested).
We expect to send off the next set of kernel and VFS patches to Linus
early next week, which will allow ext2, ext3, XFS & other filesystems
to support these new features.
cheers.
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Nathan
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