ACL problem with NFSv4 and DELETE_ACCESS

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Jun 18 09:52:05 GMT 2008


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:45:52PM +0200, Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
> 	Well, I tried to work on this :
> 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5135
> 
> 	
> 	not really easy when you never worked on Samba sources.
> 
> 	When I chat with obnox, we talked about the issue around calls to  
> posix_acl.c instead of using vfs implementation.
> 
> 	Your patch may fix some cases, but is it really sufficient ? Take a  
> look to the list I wrote in my bug report.

Just found in the SUN docs of the acl(2) system call that is
evolving or uncommitted. This is really brillant, because
according to their docs it means:

> No commitment is made about either source or binary
> compatibility of these interfaces from one Minor release to
> the next. Even the drastic incompatible change of removal of
> the interface in a Minor release is possible.

Can we use this AT ALL?

Volker
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