re[2]: plans for new release,update redate 2.4.18-5

[Andreas Gruenbacher <ag@bestbits.at>]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Greg Freemyer wrote:

>  >>  Just to clarify - there is no ACL code in the kernel yet.  So far we
>  >>  have EA VFS and system call changes in and also some quota changes.
>
>  >>  ACL support shouldn't be too hard to get, I think; Andreas and I just
>  >>  need to iterate a few more times on exactly what it is we should send.
>  >>  The attached patch is my current "small is beautiful" version of VFS
>  >>  POSIX ACL support and is everything we need from an XFS point of view,
>  >>  but is not quite what Andreas wants, IIRC.  I'm a bit sidetracked on
>  >>  capabilities code to follow up on this right now though.
>
> I know 2.4.18 has the reserved syscalls.
>
> IIRC, true EA/ACL support was hoped to be in 2.4.19.
>
> Is this no longer the case? Or was it just EA support that was hoped to
> go into 2.4.19

2.4.19 will most likely only have EA support.

--Andreas.

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