Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 20:07:09 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Daniel Rock <D.Rock@t-online.de> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inconsistencies in *stat() for files with ACLs Message-ID: <20011202200708.A91752@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <3C0ACCC3.CD252518@t-online.de> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011202180538.21930A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3C0ACCC3.CD252518@t-online.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:52:19AM +0100, Daniel Rock wrote: > Robert Watson schrieb: > > That said, I won't argue it's intuitive unless you know about the behavior > > already, and it probably should be documented in the stat(2) man page. If > > you're interested in discussing these semantics, it might be worth raising > > it on the POSIX.1e mailing list (posix1e@cyrus.watson.org). A number of > > people involved in writing the spec are there, and in the past it has been > > a successful forum for discussing ambiguities (not to mention mistakes) in > > the spec. > > I don't have access to the POSIX spec. I only found some early drafts. Without > detailed knowledge of these internals I wouldn't be a good participant in > this discussion. > See http://wt.xpilot.org/publications/posix.1e/download.html for .pdf's, .ps's, and .nroff's of the last drafts (.1e and .2c). http://www.TrustedBSD.org/ also has links to the posix1e mailing lists and other resources. > But what about some additions to ls: In Solaris - if the file has additional > ACLs - the permissions are followed by a plus sign (see above). So you know: > To get full information you have to use getfacl. > See http://www.fxp.org/jedgar/ACL/ for patches to enable ACL support for cp, ls, and mv. For ls, the patch simply changes the string obtained from stat(2). In the future stat(2)/strmode(3) will support ACL's natively. Also, I committed a patch recently to the gnuls port to give it support ala the aformentioned ls patch. -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iEYEARECAAYFAjwK0DwACgkQObaG4P6BelAsXACfdydIFIDqjOeBZKu6ov9lSvKl Nr0AniNWH/CG7JS2SAcBs5e8hP5ov4s/ =V1O0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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