Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:10:57 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, mckusick@FreeBSD.org Cc: jedgar@FreeBSD.org Subject: First round review request, ACLs for UFS commit Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010319235727.69303E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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For the past few months, we (Chris Faulhaber and myself) have been developing and testing POSIX.1e ACL support for FreeBSD. Most of the code to support ACLs is now committed to the base source tree as of 5.0-CURRENT. This includes support libraries, generic ACL support code in the kernel, relevant vnode operations, introduction of extended attributes, and userland ACL tools talked about in POSIX.2c. It has also included work to maintain API and tool portability with SGI and Linux developers. I'm now about ready to do the last set of commits, which introduce the ACL semantics into the UFS code itself (mapping ACLs onto UFS EAs). I'd like to pause at this point and ask for some additional review of the code before committing it. A number of sites have been working with ACLs for a few months now and found them to work fairly well. The most recent revision of the ACL code is 0.6.1, available for download from: http://www.TrustedBSD.org/downloads/ It relies on the most recent round of EA commits to the tree, and the userland getfacl and setfacl tools committed this afternoon. It is my intent to request review on freebsd-fs, wait a few days, then bump over to -current and -arch, wait a few days, and then commit assuming no show-stoppers turn up. There are several things left on the TODO list, including fix a couple of issues with ACL validation, implement a few more supporting library calls, etc. The goal now, however, is to get increased testing and experimentation by making the code available to a wider audience. Thanks, Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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