NT file-permissions

[Cole, Timothy D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jeremy Allison [SMTP:jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 20, 1999 12:47
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL
> Subject:	Re: NT file-permissions
> 
> Yep, that's exactly what I'm planning for a future release.
> 
	JOOC, how future a release?  There seems to be some definite
interest in this ACL stuff forming now.

> I intend to abstract the ACL interfaces (which are different
> on almost *every* UNIX, as the POSIX committee failed to
> agree - arghhhhh !) in the same way as the lib/system.c
> calls.
> 
> I'll probably implement them on IRIX first as that's what
> I have access to, but I'll use this list to try and design
> the interface first, so hopefully multiple people can work
> on implementations at the same time.
> 
	Is this an appropriate time to start hashing this stuff out, or are
there other things that need finishing first?