Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 10:00:50 -0800 From: Byron Servies <bservies@pacang.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving a list of ACLs for a file Message-ID: <20020302100050.A15624@pacang.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020301165052.94041E-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 04:52:16PM -0500 References: <20020225215526.J13918@pacang.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020301165052.94041E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On March 01, 2002 at 16:52, Robert Watson wrote: > > Unfortunately, the POSIX.1e API doesn't define a way to get a list of > valid ACL types for a particular filesystem object (or even a filesystem). > For the time being, it's probably sufficient to assume that there will > only be ACL_TYPE_ACCESS and ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT ACLs present on filesystems. > Other ACL constants have been tentatively assigned, but are not used. > Hi, I was looking around some more last week and noticed that the posix acl support is built upon a more generic extattr facility. Instead of backing up the posix acl's directly, should I instead be using this facility to backup any possible additional attributes on a file? Since this is a freebsd api, I could add the function necessary to collect a complete list, if one does not exist yet. Preferences? Thanks for the advice, Byron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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