From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX ACL support Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878v9yr1h1.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> <50AAAAEC.5040500@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353435393 21496 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2012 18:16:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:16:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Romain Francoise , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 20 19:16:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TasNH-0000mr-Op for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:16:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasN7-0007ZZ-AW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54156) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasN1-0007Z6-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasMw-0000x1-Sy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:26 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:47715) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TasMl-0000us-D4; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:11 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id qAKIG1rF027018; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:01 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5B853B4278; Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:16:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <50AAAAEC.5040500@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:55:56 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4408=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9309 : core <4408> : streams <862298> : uri <1272914> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154995 Archived-At: >> 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