From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 31 2:50:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFC537B401; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:50:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC22643F3F; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0VAoee20704; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:50:40 -0200 Message-ID: <3E3A5500.60109@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:50:40 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030128 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: CURRENT Subject: Re: copy extended attributes References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm starting to have a bad feeling about mergemaster and /etc's full of acl and mac labels... Robert Watson wrote: > > I have local patches submitted by Chris Faulhaber to copy ACLs when a file > is copied (or moved between file systems) that I've been meaning to finish > testing and merge. Likewise, for gzip, bzip, and others when a file is > replaced. This wouldn't address the general issue of copying extended > attributes, but is a necessary step. Presumably if we did extend cp, et > al, to copy EA's, they should explicitly copy only user namespace EAs, not > system EAs. There's been some recent e-mail on the Linux side about > interfaces to copy ACLs from one file to another, but I haven't had a > chance to review those changes as yet to see whether we should pick them > up. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net There once was a jolly old bloke Who picked up a girl for a poke. He took down her pants, Fucked her into a trance, And then shit into her shoe for a joke. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message