Copying EAs and ACLs

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Sat Mar 1 15:08:10 EST 2003


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:42:05PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:13:56PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am the guy behind the ext2/ext3 patches for Extended Attributes and ACLs, 
> > and I've recently been asked about ACL support in rsync by Eric. Upon 
> > investigating I found that you have an ACL patch against rsync-2.5.5 [1]. I 
> > also found some other postings to rsync at lists.samba.org concerning rsync and 
> > ACLs [3].
> 
> I'm on 2.4 and the only ACL docs i have are from XFS which
> while consistant with POSIX i'm not using at the moment anyway.
> getfacl (1)          - get file access control lists
> setfacl (1)          - set file access control lists
> chacl (1)            - change the access control list of a file or directory
> acl (5)              - Access Control Lists
> 
> Where can i find the system calls documented?  They don't
> seem to be part of SUSv3 and Andreas Browne's latest
> manpages have no ACL related manpages.

I've found the manpages and i see that they have been added
to the standard kernel set.

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