Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Jim, Eric, et al., > > The ACL support code for AIX 5 currently has just #if 0 stubs. On 2008-12-07, > I wrote some work-in-progress code for AIX 5 ACLs (function aclx_get etc.). > The code is not finished. IIRC, the test suite does not pass. > > Unfortunately I cannot continue working on this code (*). But someone else
That's a shame, for AIX 5 users, but their numbers seem to be small... and shrinking. > may find it a good starting point for completing this support. Should I > a) put into gnulib, surrounded with #if 0? > b) put the code on a separate branch in gnulib? > c) keep it only for myself? > > I would prefer a), so the code does not escape the attention of whoever > wants to continue and does not bitrot as quickly. But it goes against the > principle of committing only working code. What do you think? Doing a) sounds best to me, too.
