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Re: POSIX ACL API in glibc?
- From: "Mark Brown" <bmark at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen at suse dot de>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:01:50 -0600
- Subject: Re: POSIX ACL API in glibc?
- Reply-to: bmark at us dot ibm dot com
> 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?
>
> The current implementation might not be ready for glibc out of the box,
but we
> at SuSE (Andreas Jaeger and myself) would be willing to work on fixing
the
> remaining issues.
This document never became a standard, and is not going to be anytime
soon.
(see current IEEE POSIX status at http://www.pasc.org/standing/sd11.html)
I recommend strongly against this.
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Mark S. Brown
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Server Group
bmark@us.ibm.com
512.838.3926