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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX ACL support
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:44:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <833906z27z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v9yr1h1.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com>

> From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 23:27:22 +0100
> 
> The following patch adds support for preserving POSIX ACL entries of
> files, which at the moment are lost when Emacs saves a buffer (unless
> `backup-by-copying' is set). This is a similar problem as preserving the
> SELinux context, and as a consequence the implementation is also very
> similar.
> 
> Only the "portable" interface is used, I tested this patch successfully on
> GNU/Linux (using libacl) and FreeBSD.
> 
> Comments welcome!

Thanks.

I'd like to suggest to drop the "posix" part from the APIs, because
that will make it easier to extend this support to other types of
ACLs.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-19  3:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-18 22:27 [PATCH] POSIX ACL support Romain Francoise
2012-11-19  3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-11-19 21:41   ` Romain Francoise
2012-11-20  3:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 17:11 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-19 17:47   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-19 18:11   ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-19 21:33     ` Romain Francoise
2012-11-20 18:15       ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-21 12:51         ` Romain Francoise
2012-11-21 14:25           ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-21 15:36             ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-21 16:01               ` Romain Francoise
2012-11-21 18:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-21 18:25                 ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-21 19:09                   ` Achim Gratz
2012-11-21 19:40                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-11-21 19:52                       ` Achim Gratz
2012-11-19 21:55     ` Paul Eggert
2012-11-20 18:16       ` Stefan Monnier

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