Re: [RFC v7 26/41] richacl: Apply the file masks to a richacl

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:40:18PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 2015-09-23 22:33 GMT+02:00 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > The same could be said if there's a group-i-belong-to:rwx::allow entry,
> > do we make that exception too?
> 
> We cannot because that would be incorrect for all other group members.

OK.  So people have to learn how the group mask works anyway, and now
they have to learn a special exception to that rule.

I don't like having this exception.  Or making the richacl->v4acl
translation dependent on the owner.

But I admit it's surprising to that an 0700 mask with
"bfields:rwx::allow" ACL denies access to a bfields-owned file.

--b.
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