2015-09-17 20:22 GMT+02:00 J. Bruce Fields <bfie...@fieldses.org>: > On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 12:27:08PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >> ACLs are considered equivalent to file modes if they only consist of >> owner@, group@, and everyone@ entries, the owner@ permissions do not >> depend on whether the owner is a member in the owning group, and no >> inheritance flags are set. This test is used to avoid storing richacls >> if the acl can be computed from the file permission bits. > > We're assuming here that it's OK for us to silently rearrange an ACL as > long as the result is still equivalent (in the sense that the permission > algorithm would always produce the same result). > > I guess that's OK by me, but it might violate user expectations in some > simple common cases, so may be worth mentioning in documentation > someplace if we don't already.
I've tried to be clear about that in the man pages. Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
