From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 31 22:44:39 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 4902F37B401; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:44:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from 12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com [12.234.22.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB80D43F3F; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from slave.gorean.org (mn2z4qqmqek81eyj@slave.gorean.org [10.0.0.1]) by 12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h116iafS053575; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:44:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:44:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Robert Watson , CURRENT Subject: Re: copy extended attributes In-Reply-To: <3E3A5500.60109@tcoip.com.br> Message-ID: <20030131224420.Y52941@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <3E3A5500.60109@tcoip.com.br> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns? Doug On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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. > > -- If it's moving, encrypt it. If it's not moving, encrypt it till it moves, then encrypt it some more. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message