Re: force_shutdown experienced

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:08:08AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
> Robert Sander wrote:
> >
> >>Note if you get the new kernel and you use ACLs you need new user space 
> >>utilities to go with the kernel.
> >
> >Or I compile the compatability layer into the kernel. How is that
> >working?
> >
> There is no compatibility layer, at 2.4.18 the system calls change. 
> Maintaining both
> in the kernel was going to be a nightmare.  I am not sure what the 
> current status is
> with third party apps like samba - I think some people have it working.
> 

Samba uses the libacl.so interface (POSIX), not the syscalls directly;
so, provided one has the correct version of libacl installed (matching
the syscall interface in the running kernel), and Samba is linked with
that version of libacl, Samba's ACL support will continue to work with
no changes to the Samba source.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan