On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> No. I'm saying that ACLs do not have a point until at least basic
> userland gets ready for setups people want ACLs for. Adding features that
> can't be used until $BIG_WORK is done is idiocy in the best case and
> danger in the worst. Especially since $BIG_WORK does not depend on these
> features.
I think samba alone counts as enough user-land usage.
And if it turns out nobody else ever wants to use them, that's fine too.
Linus
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