Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:06:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] |
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On Friday 2010-08-13 19:54, Jeremy Allison wrote: >On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:54:32AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:05:01AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: >> > We don't need to ape Windows in everything. >> > The coming ACL disaster will show that (we will go from an ACL >> > model that is slightly too complex to use, to one that is impossibly >> > complex to use :-). >> >> Care to elaborate? > >POSIX ACLs -> RichACLs (NT-style). Not criticising Andreas here, >people are asking for this. But Windows ACLs are a nightmare >beyond human comprehension :-). In the "too complex to be >usable" camp.
Well, for one, ACLs in NT can be recursive IIRC. You can't say that of Linux ACLs - instead you have to setfacl -R and setfacl -Rd to give one user access to a directory and all its subdirs including future new inodes.
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