>Anyone know if the coda project intends to make their ACLs work the same way
>as these do for ext2? It'd be great to have one set of common commands to
>learn for working with ACLs ...
I'd be much happier if the ACL interface moved into the VFS layer, and up
to individual file systems to support/not support ACL's. This way the
implementation would become isolated from the kernel support, allowing a
common set of user utilities, and user/OS interface.
The problem is that different, already established filesystems: AFS,
Coda, NTFS, etc., all have different ACL semantics. For example, AFS
only has an ACL on a per-directory basis. I'm not sure about Coda, but
it may be the same as AFS. NTFS uses 128 bit UUID's in its ACL's to
name users and groups. The POSIX acl interface uses uid_t and gid_t for
user and group id's.
So it would be *nice* to do this, but there's quite a lot of design work
to make the interfaces similar enough that a single interface could be
used at both the UI and system call level. I won't say that it's
impossible, but it's definitely non-trivial.
- Ted
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