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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



      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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