From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX ACL support
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:44:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <836251x7iy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9udp8wq.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com>
> From: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:41:57 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Do you think that a string-based interface is portable enough for
> all platforms?
I think so. There are functions like acl_to_text and acl_from_text to
do that.
> From what I can see, you can use a string interface on Windows to
> set ACEs, but I'm no expert.
Yes, I once wrote acl_from_text and acl_to_text for Windows. The
strings look very differently from what you see with Posix ACLs,
though, but I don't think this matters.
> If it requires passing binary information, the new functions
> wouldn't be general enough.
I think binary data will be inconvenient in Lisp.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-20 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
2012-11-19 21:41 ` Romain Francoise
2012-11-20 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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