Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] ACL support for ext2/3

From: Robson Paniago de Miranda (Robsonm@mpdft.gov.br)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 13:34:56 EST


I think Andreas Gruenbacher released version 0.8.51 solving a bug in
which a user could receive the "others" permission if the group
permissions are zero. There is still time to integrate these changes?

Robson

> The following patch set adds ACL support to the ext2/3 filesystem. It
> is a port of the 0.8.50 patches from Andreas Gruenbacher. It requires
> the Extended Attribute patches which I had sent earlier as a
> pre-requisite, and represents the 2nd of 3 sets of patches from the
> acl.bestbits.at code. (The first set was the EA patches; this is the
> second set of patches; and the third set of patches adds ACL support to
> NFS, so that the NFS server respects the ACL set on the filesystem.)
>
> Some of these patches in this set are shared in common with the XFS
> filesystem, and are needed for ACL support in XFS as well. These
> patches are versus 2.5.40, and still reflect the original design
> decision of allowing ext2 and ext3 ACL support to be available as
> separate standalone modules. (See the discussion of the EA patches
> about whether or not this makes sense.)
>
> Please comment/bleed on these patches.
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