From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Romain Francoise Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX ACL support Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:41:57 +0100 Organization: orebokech dot com Message-ID: <87a9udp8wq.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> References: <878v9yr1h1.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> <833906z27z.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353361328 17774 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2012 21:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 22:42:19 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 1TaZ6f-0004y4-M3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:42:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42622 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZ6V-00026d-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:42:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39133) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZ6O-00026S-Nw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:42:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZ6N-0005wj-QG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from stringer.orebokech.com ([88.190.240.207]:56197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZ6M-0005wS-AY; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:41:58 -0500 Original-Received: from silenus.orebokech.com (silenus [192.168.1.4]) by stringer.orebokech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F2F1880207; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:41:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by silenus.orebokech.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 64837A02F4; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:41:57 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <833906z27z.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:44:00 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 88.190.240.207 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:154969 Archived-At: Hi Eli, Eli Zaretskii writes: > 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. Sure, I can do that. Do you think that a string-based interface is portable enough for all platforms? From what I can see, you can use a string interface on Windows to set ACEs, but I'm no expert. If it requires passing binary information, the new functions wouldn't be general enough. Thanks!