samba acl support under 4-stable

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:05:48AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote:
> > - Testing of applications when ACLs are enabled to see what "weird" things
> >   happen--particular WRT preservation of ACLs when applications act on
> >   files (including WRT copying and moving files), and whether applications
> >   act properly and respect ACLs.  One example of this comes via the
> >   eaccess() system call I'm about to introduce on -CURRENT, which allows
> >   an application to ask if it has the rights to open a file without
> >   actually opening it (to be distinguished from access() in that it uses
> >   effective not real credentials).  This allows applications such as file
> >   browsers to correctly display the writability of files in the user
> >   interface.  This call is actually being introduced to support the Finder
> >   on Mac OS X, but would also be useful for KDE and related software.
> 
> I'd be very happy if you could keep you eaccess compatible to tje one in
> Xenix and SCO OpenServer.  Especially the interaction with the
> secureware trusted extensions on OSR5 is of particular interest. 

Are the man pages for this interface available on the web somewhere? 
Compatibility and portability are of great interest, but given the
diversity of interfaces, it can be hard to track them all down :-).

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert at fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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