ACLs overriding umasks?

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Boris Kochergin wrote:

> Hi, list. A few years ago, there were plans to add an option to the 
> filesystem ACL implementation that would allow ACLs to override umasks when 
> creating files. I haven't been able to find anything else conclusive on the 
> matter and was wondering if it was ever implemented. Thanks.

Hi Boris:

The quick answer is: no, that hasn't happened yet, but it would be nice to do 
it for 8.0.  There's a large in-progress project as part of Google Summer of 
Code to implement NFSv4 ACLs as well, which we should hear more on soon now 
that the summer is wrapping up.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge