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: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:25:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878v9yr1h1.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> <87ehjpp9b7.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> <87mwybm84m.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353507931 3718 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2012 14:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Romain Francoise Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 15:25:42 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 1TbBFE-00033S-LZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:25:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbBF4-0005DW-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53813) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbBEt-0005BW-5h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:25:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbBEn-0003eJ-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:25:19 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:27399) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TbBEd-0003Rz-Bk; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:25:03 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAG6Zu09FpaQ6/2dsb2JhbABEtBGBCIIVAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOIQppxgViDBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="208121316" Original-Received: from 69-165-164-58.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.164.58]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 21 Nov 2012 09:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5B6E4597C9; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:25:01 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87mwybm84m.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> (Romain Francoise's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:51:37 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:155021 Archived-At: > Okay. Do you envision this as a Lisp-level API which uses lower-level > subroutines for each type (set-file-foo, similar to what we have today), > or as a C-level API which abstracts the different metadata types (in which > case we would remove file-foo/set-file-foo)? I'd start with whichever is easiest. Stefan