Re: POSIX ACL

[Ionut Cotoi <cotty cotty iren ro>]

That's not what I meant by saying that, I mean that we should start by adding generic support for ACL, and after that integrate  the code in *facl stuff,  maybe even use this tools if they are present on the system.

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 10:47, Alexander Larsson wrote: 
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 19:03, Ionut Cotoi wrote:
> > Well I think we can start with the implementation for the UNIX
> > filesystems which support ACL using the code provided in getfacl and
> > setfacl CLI utilities in gnome-vfs. And for instance, if we hit the
> > advanced button on the permisions sheet on a file which is on a
> > filesystem that doesn't support POSIX ACLs, the user will be presented
> > with a "Not supported on this filesystem error!" or better, show the
> > Advanced... button grayed.
> > What do you think?
>
> The API exposed from gnome-vfs and to be implemented for gnome-vfs
> modules needs to be generic enough to support all sorts of ACLs. We
> can't just start hacking in support for something that will work for one
> thing, and then later discover we have to redo the whole system and
> rewrite applications when we need to extend it. 
>
> We only get one shot at this, and it needs to be right.
>
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