Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Feb 1998 18:09:11 +0100 | From | Remy Card <> | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean |
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On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 08:25:46PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 23:57:20 GMT > From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> > > I would strongly recommend that we use i_faddr instead of i_dir_acl for > this, since fragments are currently *completely* unused in all ext2fs > variants, whereas there are patches waiting to be merged which use the > acl fields. > > I would agree with Albert Calahan that we should use i_dir_acl. We can > make sure the patches don't break by using #define's for i_dir_acl.
Well, the problem is that I chose quite a bad name for this field. Actually, i_dir_acl contains a pointer to the default ACL that can be set on a directory and is inherited by files and subdirectories. A file can have i_file_acl set (if it has an explicit ACL) or i_dir_acl set (if it has inherited the default ACL from its parent directory).
I should probably rename the two fields in my next patch: i_file_acl -> i_acl and i_dir_acl -> i_default_acl.
Remy
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