ACLs on HPUX

Simo Sorce idra at samba.org
Thu Dec 6 08:57:08 GMT 2001


I'm just curious, what happen if a filename is renamed from unix side and then we try to apply an ACL?

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:16:12PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:18:19PM -0800, P Ranjit Kumar wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I have researched the ACLs on HPUX quite a bit. I also found out that HPUX
> > doesn't have facl() system call.
> > 
> > So for implementing ACLs support on Samba 2.2.2 we need to some how get a
> > file name from an fd. I think there is no way you can get a file name from a
> > file descriptor (am I wrong here??). One ugly way would be to maintain a
> > mapping between the file descriptor and filenames when samba opens the file.
> > Another ugly way is to modify 2.2.2 code so it doesn't call
> > sys_acl_set/get_fd.
> > 
> > I chose the second way to implement ACL support in Samba 2.2.2. This feature
> > is available in HP CIFS A.01.08 to be released in March 2002.
> > 
> > Knowing that the Samba team won't accept these changes I didn't submit the
> > changes.
> 
> There is no UNIX way to map from fd to pathname. But there is a Samba way
> to map from fd to name, which can be hidden under the lib/sysacl.c interface.
> 
> They way you do it is to search the fsp list for a fsp struct with
> a matching fd. This contains the dos name of the file being referenced,
> under the share path which is available in the fsp->conn struct.
> 
> This then allows you to do the setfacl call on an fd, and under
> the covers for HPUX only do the call on the name. It won't be
> fast, but it will present the same interface as POSIX complient
> systems, thus allowing easy integration.
> 
> Then when HPUX gets a resonable fgetacl/fsetacl call we can
> move the underlying code to use that.
> 
> If you'll send me the code changes you made I'll look at
> integrating them into the lib/sysacl.c mechanism in the
> way described above, and getting them into Samba 2.2.3.
> 
> Jeremy.
> 

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