Re: [PATCH] Add ability to print ACL's from ls

2009-05-28 Thread David Bartley
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 6:32 AM, James Youngman wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Bartley > wrote: > >> I considered this. There are at least 3 different variants of ACL's >> (POSIX, NFSv4 and MacOS X) and they are generally incompatible. UMich >> created patches to acl/libacl so th

Re: [PATCH] Add ability to print ACL's from ls

2009-05-10 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Bartley wrote: > I considered this. There are at least 3 different variants of ACL's > (POSIX, NFSv4 and MacOS X) and they are generally incompatible. UMich > created patches to acl/libacl so that you could set NFS4 acl's via > getfacl/setfacl using POSIX AC

Re: [PATCH] Add ability to print ACL's from ls

2009-05-09 Thread David Bartley
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: > > Unfortunately, having GNU 'ls' (and maybe later GNU 'chmod') use the > platform's native syntax for ACLs does not allow the user to use the > same commands on different platforms, and does not allow for platform > independent scripts. I cons

Re: [PATCH] Add ability to print ACL's from ls

2009-05-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello David, > The following patches add support for printing ACL's via 'ls -e/-E'. > This is supported on platforms that have some sort of acl_to_text > function, which is most of the platforms that the acl module supports. Unfortunately, having GNU 'ls' (and maybe later GNU 'chmod') use the pla