Posix1e funcs in FreeBSD

[Tim Kientzle]

> My question is, what's the status of posix1e-related work in
> FreeBSD and TrustedBSD. Is it intentionally slowed down, or will
> new work be accepted? If the latter, what's the right place to
> send patches to and discuss them?

This mailing list is an ideal place to discuss it, and
of course the freebsd-hackers and freebsd-current
mailing lists are good places to discuss work you'd like
to do.

As Robert said, the ACL support is in pretty good shape,
at least in terms of the basic utilities and system
calls.  There's work to do still in getting support into
more utilities, of course.  (I think FreeBSD may be in better
shape than Linux here, though.  A number of distributions
still don't ship libacl by default.)  Extended attribute
support is somewhat rougher.  (I still haven't found
time to finish off the FreeBSD-specific hooks for
libarchive's extended attribute support, for instance.)

Beyond posix1e, there's a real need for people to work
on NFSv4/NTFS ACLs.  Most of the commercial folks (IBM,
HP, Sun) already support them and they're a key feature
for full Samba support.  One of the FreeBSD projects being
sponsored by Google Summer of Code is going to work on
getting basic NFSv4 ACL support into FreeBSD but there will
doubtless be plenty of ongoing work to get that integrated
cleanly into all of the userland applications.

Cheers,

Tim Kientzle