On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:38:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Note that as far as ACL's go, enough people have convinced me that we want 
> them, with clear real-life issues. So don't worry about them, I'll merge 
> it.

Ok, so now lets work on a Documentation/filesystems patch pointing
out a few of the common pitfalls, as I definitely agree they invite
some grave mistakes and are best avoided in most scenarios.

- /tmp-style symlink issues on shared directories
- vast majority of software (including security tools) ACL-unaware
- much harder to check for correctness

Al, I'm sure you have more..

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