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Re: POSIX ACL API in glibc?
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen at suse dot de>
- Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:34:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: POSIX ACL API in glibc?
- References: <OF0F17C844.3D6B042E-ON85256C21.00457364-85256C21.0045D28C@mailrouter.net> <20020826152006.46ab021b.roger@opq.se> <20020826155800.A10431@lst.de> <200208261629.31187.agruen@suse.de>
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:29:31PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 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.
No. We discussed your ACL changes on linux-fsdevel and you should have
noticed that they are far from ready to be merged in 2.5. That also
means we don't have any stable ABI yet, the ACLs as xattr representation
might change (even if that is unlikely).
SuSE has shipped unfinished and/or broken APIs all the time, but that is
no reason they should be added to glibc.