Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:52:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Byron Servies <bservies@pacang.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Retrieving a list of ACLs for a file Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020301165052.94041E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020225215526.J13918@pacang.com>
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Unfortunately, the POSIX.1e API doesn't define a way to get a list of valid ACL types for a particular filesystem object (or even a filesystem). For the time being, it's probably sufficient to assume that there will only be ACL_TYPE_ACCESS and ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT ACLs present on filesystems. Other ACL constants have been tentatively assigned, but are not used. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Byron Servies wrote: > Hi there! > > I am working on adding ACL support to the freebsd port of Legato > NetWorker. Everything appears to be straight forward, with the > exception of retrieving a complete list of the ACLs on a file. > > From the acl_get manual page, it appears that there is no way > to retrieve a complete list, but that each ACL type must be > retrieved individually. My concern is that if new ACL types > are added, the backup will still succeed though the new ACLs > would not actually be backed up. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on a good way to retrieve > a complete list, or do I just have to hard code it? > > Thanks, > > Byron > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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