ACLs: what to return for fs that doesn't support them?

James Buster bitbug at seal.engr.sgi.com
Thu Oct 28 23:21:14 GMT 1999


On Oct 29, 12:58am, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
} If this is not possible (i.e., with an extended ACL),
} ENOSYS seems a good choice. What do you do on Irix?

Synchronize the mode with the ACL, then set the ACL. If setting
the ACL fails, return an error (but the mode was still set).

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