I found this bug on accident, while using setfacl -R in the same way I was using chmod -R. The behavior should be the same, and the man page describes it as the same, but it isn't. I was fortunate in that I found out when a symbolic link in a user directory pointed to the root partition which doesn't have ACL turned on. If ACL was turned on for my root partition, this would have just completely compromised my entire system, which doesn't make me happy, to put it much more politely than I'm inclined to express.
Frankly, I'm amazed and disappointed this bug is this old without even a reply. How complicated could it be to fix this? This seems serious enough that it should be going out in the next subrelease of Debian, not hanging around in the bug queue for half a year. If this is due to lack of someone available to work on it and my patch wouldn't be ignored, I'll give a shot at fixing this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
