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Re: errno return for setting acls



Hi Ethan,

On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:55:22AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> 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 withdrawn posix spec i believe it should be EPERM, and that is more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.
> 
Looking at the 1003.1e std. sections 23.4.8.4, 23.4.22.4, ...
I would agree with you that EPERM should be returned ih this case.
I'll check in the change shortly.
Thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers,
Tim.