Re: rdiff-backup / EAs / ACLs

[Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:46:11 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:18, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 06:04:17 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > > 
> > > My understanding of xfs acls is that they are implemented via EAs. 
> > > right?
> > 
> > Yes, although libacl hides the user/kernel interface and
> > presents a (draft-POSIX-standard-compliant) ACL interface
> > to users which isn't aware of extended attributes.
> 
> Does libattr allow access to ACLs, or from userland are EAs and ACLs
> truly distinct?

Yes, libattr sees system.{posix_acl_access,system.posix_acl_default}
as raw binary data, which I guess is all you need.  libacl will let
you manipulate these as text also if you need that.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan