[ACL-Devel] ACLs: Ideas for projects...

[Dominik Kubla]

On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:31:55PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:

> POSIX ACL library functions
> ---------------------------
> Raymond S Brand <rsbx at rsbx.net> has a complete implementation of the POSIX
> Draft Standard 17 ACL library functions. These would need to be integrated
> with the Linux ACL project, tested, etc. Somebody volunteer, please  :)

Where could one get the code?

> ACLs for other filesystems
> --------------------------
> Linux supports many different filesystems. Some of them have native ACL
> support. Support for these filesystems' ACLs should be added. Most important
> to me seems NFS ACL support.

I take it that you mean NTFS not NFS, right?  That touches base with something
that was discussed on the samba-ntdom list recently about fitting SAMBA with
a generic ACL support so that SAMBA servers could map NT ACLs to native ACLs.

As for ACLs over NFS:  That touches the NFSv3 effort by Trond et al. and should
be discussed on the NFS mailing list as well. (But i am not sure that this is
really documented at all, at least i couldn't find anything about this in the
NFSv3 RFCs...)

> Linux ACL ports to other platforms
> ----------------------------------
> Currently, we only have ACL support in i386. People are working on PowerPC,
> Sparc, and Alpha ports, but progress seems to be moderate. Would you like to
> support your favorite platform? If so, I can give you a couple of hints. It
> shouldn't be _that_ hard :)

I need just a bit time to hack at Alpha and SPARC, but right now i don't have
it.  Additionally i will try to talk Ralf Bächle in doing the MIPS stuff 
himself next time we meet...

More important:  Have you checked the ext3 patches of Stephen Tweedie?  It
would be nice if the journaling variant of ext2 would have ACL support out
of the box...

Yours,
  Dominik Kubla
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