Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Alexander Viro wrote: > > > > First of all, why do you need the full permissions? Anyway, _if_ you > > really need it - that's not a way to go. Really. Minimal solution would go > > along the lines > > The full permissions are indeed necessary

Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Alexander Viro wrote: > > First of all, why do you need the full permissions? Anyway, _if_ you > really need it - that's not a way to go. Really. Minimal solution would go > along the lines The full permissions are indeed necessary for file/directory creation inside a directory that has a defaul

Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Hans Reiser wrote: > > You might find it easier to prototype ACLs on reiserfs. Thank you, both projects are well beyond the prototyping phase. Reiserfs support is surely a good thing to have, anyway. Andreas Andreas Grue

Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Hans Reiser
> I > am sure there is at least one person on this list who pays by the byte > (or minute, which == byte in the end) for his connectivity and really > did not need to see the whole content of a previous message *including* > the entire patch in the reply to make one or two lines of new content >

Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Hello all. OK, I want to appologize for taking this list into the "administrative" realm for a minute, because I know how tedious it can be but this needs to be addressed. I really don't mean to pick on anyone or single anyone out either, this is a general request. Can we have at least *some* t

Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Alexander Viro
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to bring to your attention the current Linux ACL development > efforts. AFAIK, there are two competing implementations: > > ACLs for ext2 > > > Posix ACLs for

Re: ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Hans Reiser
You might find it easier to prototype ACLs on reiserfs. Hans Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to bring to your attention the current Linux ACL development > efforts. AFAIK, there are two competing implementations: > > ACLs for ext2 >

ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Dear all, I would like to bring to your attention the current Linux ACL development efforts. AFAIK, there are two competing implementations: ACLs for ext2 Posix ACLs for Linux We have started some discussions

ACL projects, Preparing the current kernel

1999-12-12 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
-- Andreas Gruenbacher, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact information: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~agruenba Move kernel umask handling from VFS to underlying FS (patch is against linux-2.2.13) PROBLEM The current VFS ap