Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:08:53 -0700 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@bfoz.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: ACL not supported on 5.4? Message-ID: <42AB9935.4070201@bfoz.net> In-Reply-To: <42AB958F.7080300@mac.com> References: <42AA2B21.8040708@bfoz.net> <42AA761B.5020909@cs.tu-berlin.de> <42AB6EE1.7070405@bfoz.net> <42AB958F.7080300@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > Brandon Fosdick wrote: >> Are handbook bugs handled through send-pr like everything else? > > > Yep. Although it's OK to forward the thread over to freebsd-doc and > hope someone does a quick fix, too. :-) It would help to mention which > section of the handbook is out-of-sync with the manpages.... > Thanks, I forgot about the doc list. The relevant handbook section is 14.12.1 (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/fs-acl.html) and the offending text is the first sentence of the second to last paragraph and describes the -k flag of the setfacl command. It reads "The -k flag will remove all of the currently defined ACLs from a file or file system." which would indicate that -k can operate on regular files. According to the portion of the man page setfacl(1) regarding the -k flag "An error will be reported if any of the specified files cannot have a default entry (i.e. non-directo-ries)." which indicates that it doesn't work on ordinary files. I propose the following replacement text for the offending sentence. Feel free to come up with something better. "The -k flag will remove all of the currently defined ACLs from a directory."
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