Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:38:32 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, CURRENT <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: copy extended attributes Message-ID: <3E3E46A8.2060109@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20030131224420.Y52941@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030130220138.35728A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3E3A5500.60109@tcoip.com.br> <20030131224420.Y52941@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
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Doug Barton wrote:
> Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns?
My concern is setting various mac labels to various files in /etc, and
having these files keep the labels after a mergemaster.
>
> 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.
>>
>>
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