RE: ACL complexity

2023-01-13 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Still, this wouln't go to Gnulib, but mostly to coreutils, right?

Re: ACL complexity

2023-01-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Well, I was thinking about it as well, see how nicely the OpenSolaris/OmniOS > does it using it's -V option: > root@omnios:/mnt# ls -lV acl > -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 5 Jan 4 09:11 acl > user:ondrej:rwx---:---:allow >

RE: ACL complexity

2023-01-13 Thread Ondrej Valousek
> More generally, I find the semantics and the syntax of ACLs on most systems > to be more demanding than what the average command-line user can grok. Completely agree here, especially true for so-called posix draft ACLs. > While for random features of the OS this would just be a nuisance that

Re: ACL complexity

2023-01-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote (when talking about libxattr and such): > No kidding. This stuff is wyy too complicated. More generally, I find the semantics and the syntax of ACLs on most systems to be more demanding than what the average command-line user can grok. While for random features of the OS this