ACL implementation on FreeSBD: semantics/standards/etc

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

Casey Schaufler wrote:
> 
> Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 
> > Better a bad library than none.
> 
> I disagree. The ACL manipulation functions were not only bad,
> but unnecessary. The programmer who needs anything other than
> acl_from_text() and acl_to_text() is pretty much insane.

Maybe not. There is work going on to implement a Gnome ACL manipulation utility
that benefits from a library. Otherwise, you'd have to implement parts of the
library yourself (including your own bugs). I personally don't think I'll ever
need such a graphical tool, but I don't consider it insane to implement one.


Andreas

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