(Rsync 3.0) acls for OS X

Warren Oates warren.oates at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 11:26:24 GMT 2007


Thanks for the reply, Wayne.

See what happens when Leopard comes along I guess. Sometimes I hate Darwin ...

On 7/17/07, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:36:10PM -0400, Warren Oates wrote:
> > What's the status of acl support for OS X? What needs to be done?
>
> What is needed is working ACL functions.  The posix ones are broken
> (e.g. acl_get_entry() has completely wrong return values), and even if I
> work around that, I can't find any way to interpret the ACLs enough to
> figure out the user/group IDs involved along with the access bits.  We
> need code that can list and set the ACLs (even if it uses OS X specific
> routines).
>
> ..wayne..
>


-- 
W. Oates


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