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| From | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> |
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| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH v23 17/22] richacl: Automatic Inheritance |
| Date | 2016-07-12 22:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <rUctB-1qV-33@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:11 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:56:00AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: >> Barf. AI seems like a trainwreck waiting to happen. What are the >> chances that userland is going to get this right? > > This is just taken from Windows, so presumably Samba should do the right > thing (with one workaround required--see the discussion of PROTECTED in > the changelog). > >> Still, I do applaud the fact that you're just doing the bare minimum in >> kernel to support userland apps that want this. Thanks for not trying >> to push the propagation of the changed ACEs into the kernel. > > Agreed. But, again, this is just what Windows does. (I wonder whether > there's an OS that's actually tried do any sort of atomic propagation.) NetWare's NSS filesystem did have automatic propagation, but I think that was implemented by composing the permissions along the path to a file at access time. Andreas
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Re: [PATCH v23 17/22] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> - 2016-07-12 14:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH v23 17/22] richacl: Automatic Inheritance "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> - 2016-07-12 21:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH v23 17/22] richacl: Automatic Inheritance Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> - 2016-07-12 22:30 +0200
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