Re: richacl(7) man page review comments

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Mon Feb 15 2016 - 05:25:30 EST


Hi Andreas,

On 02/15/2016 12:12 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:27 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 02/12/2016 11:25 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>>> We could sure move acl(5) and richacl(7) there.
>>
>> We already have acl(5) (now "acl(7)" in man pages) ;-).
>
> Hmm, I can't find that page either in
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages or on
> http://man7.org/. Are you sure you don't mean xattr.7 == attr.5 which
> documents the xattr syscall interface?

You're right. I was confusing with xattr(7). So, I think it might
make some sense to eventually move both of these into man-pages (for
richacl(7), at least, it's probably worth delaying this for a bit),
since they're describing kernel-user-space interfaces. I can see
counter-arguments too, such as these pages are closely related to
the corresponding user-space libraries you maintain. What do you
think?

Thanks,

Michael



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