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Re: POSIX ACL API in glibc?
- From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen at suse dot de>
- To: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:29:31 +0200
- Subject: Re: POSIX ACL API in glibc?
- Organization: SuSE Linux AG
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On Monday 26 August 2002 15:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 02:54:17PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > in our current distributions the subset of ACL manipulation functions
> > defined in POSIX 1003.1e draft 17 is located in a separate library
> > <libacl.so>. I think these functions should become part of glibc. What's
> > the official glibc position about this?
>
> What is 'our current distributions'? The two most important free kernels /
> kernel replacements support by glibc (Linux and Hurd) don't even have
> Posix ACL support implemented.
I only know for sure that ACLs will be supported by the next SuSE products
which we are currently working on; libacl also was in SuSE 8.0.
The user space/kernel interface is via Extended Attributes, which have been in
the kernel since 2.5.3 (or around that), and are expected to be in 2.4.20 as
well.
--Andreas.
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