> The "at least in Linux" qualification worries me. > Having a very quick look at the qset_acl() code suggests it clears ACLs on > some platforms at least, which chmod_or_fchmod() does not. > Am I reading that wrong?
You are right. The question is - why do we need to clear ACLs? The only real example the code in question used is via "cp --no-preserve=mode" where I can't think of a reason why we intentionally clear ACLs
