From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX ACL support
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr4noxhrm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AAAAEC.5040500@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:55:56 -0800")
>> Yes, that's a problem. We should consolidate `modes', `context', and
>> `acl' into a `metadata' argument.
> Or we could take a simpler approach, and just copy all the metadata
> from the original file to the backup. It's pretty rare that one wants
> to back up just some of this stuff, and not the rest. This would be a
> simpler than having individual arguments to copy just this and that,
> arguments that I expect in practice are rarely used properly.
I see we're in violent agreement.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-20 18:16 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
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 [this message]
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