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

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 http://aerobee.informatik.uni-bremen.de/acl_eng.html Posix ACLs for Linux http://acl.bestbits.at/ We have started some discussions

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

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 http://aerobee.informatik.uni-bremen.de/acl_eng.html Posix ACLs for Linux

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 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

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 default

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 for