Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
> >> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.
> >>
> >> When I use something like:
> >>find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile
> >>
> >> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
> >> each file found.
> >> Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
> >> C-code)?
> > 
> > getfacl -R?
> 
>   I think you're guessing.  There's no -R option in the "getfacl --help"
> output and it got rejected when I tried it just in case.

Well, only partly.  I was looking at getfacl on my Debian box at home, and it
does have an -R option for recursive retrieval.  Strange that Cygwin doesn't
have it.


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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Eric Blake
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According to Larry Hall (Cygwin) on 11/5/2009 9:13 PM:
> What "empty line between the getfacls stanzas"?

The blank line that is output after one getfacl process ends.  Try
'getfacl . .; getfacl .' vs. 'getfacl .; getfacl . .' to see it.

The number of command line arguments pieced together without exceeding
exec() limits is dependent on the sum of the command line length and the
size of the current environment; but since the 'find -exec {} +' and 'find
- -print0 | xargs -0' approaches see a slightly different environment
variables (in particular, $_ will be a different length between the two
invocations), the wraparound point for creating new processes differs.

But if you WANT to guarantee a newline between processes, just ask for it.
 Here's one way:

find -print0 | xargs -0 sh -c 'getfacl "$@"; echo' sh

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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)

On 11/05/2009 11:05 PM, aputerguy wrote:


OK... one small problem.
Every ~4500 lines and (70-80K characters), both of these methods omit the
empty line between the getfacl stanzas. The skipped lines however don't
occur at the same places in the two different methods.

I assume it must be due to buffering of the long line input or something,
but I would like to correct for it.
Preferably correct it before it occurs rather than having to use some sed or
perl magic to clean up the file afterward.

Any suggestions?


$ getfacl ~/.vim/colors/mine.vim; getfacl ~/.bash_history; getfacl.exe /tmp/tt
# file: /home/lhall/.vim/colors/mine.vim
# owner: lhall
# group: None
user::rwx
group::---
mask:rwx
other:---
# file: /home/lhall/.bash_history
# owner: lhall
# group: None
user::rw-
group::---
mask:rwx
other:---
# file: /tmp/tt
# owner: lhall
# group: None
user::rw-
group::r--
mask:rwx
other:r--

What "empty line between the getfacls stanzas"?

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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread aputerguy

OK... one small problem.
Every ~4500 lines and (70-80K characters), both of these methods omit the
empty line between the getfacl stanzas. The skipped lines however don't
occur at the same places in the two different methods.

I assume it must be due to buffering of the long line input or something,
but I would like to correct for it.
Preferably correct it before it occurs rather than having to use some sed or
perl magic to clean up the file afterward.

Any suggestions?
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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread aputerguy


Andrew Schulman-3 wrote:
> getfacl -R?

Unfortunately, no '-R' at least on my updated version.

The "-exec ... \+" and the "-print0 | xargs -0" tricks both worked!!!
Thanks.

Timing and comparing the two approaches, it seems like they both use the
same 'user' time but the xargs approach uses only about half the 'system'
time.
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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Dave Korn
Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
>> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.
>>
>> When I use something like:
>>find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile
>>
>> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
>> each file found.
>> Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
>> C-code)?
> 
> getfacl -R?

  I think you're guessing.  There's no -R option in the "getfacl --help"
output and it got rejected when I tried it just in case.

cheers,
  DaveK


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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> 
> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.
> 
> When I use something like:
>find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile
> 
> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
> each file found.
> Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
> C-code)?

getfacl -R?


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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Dave Korn
aputerguy wrote:
> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.
> 
> When I use something like:
>find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile
> 
> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
> each file found.

  Don't use -exec; use -print0 and pipe the output to "xargs -0 getfacl".

cheers,
  DaveK

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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)

On 11/05/2009 05:00 PM, aputerguy wrote:


For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.

When I use something like:
find /c -exec getfacl {} \;>  mysavefile

It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
each file found.
Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
C-code)?


find /c -exec getfacl {} \+>  mysavefile

?

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Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

2009-11-05 Thread aputerguy

For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.

When I use something like:
   find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile

It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
each file found.
Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
C-code)?
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