Remove irixacl module?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Oct 12 01:16:58 MDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 08:21 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> On 2012-10-11 at 17:00 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 14:56 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > Michael,
> > > 
> > > The irixacl module with your copyright is just a collection of no-op
> > > functions.  
> > > 
> > > Is there a specific reason to have these, rather than fall back to the
> > > no-acls case (are there normal but badly in-operative posix ACLs on IRIX
> > > we have to avoid?)
> > > 
> > > Otherwise, I propose to remove a little complexity and eliminate this
> > > module. 
> > 
> > Oops, that ended up in the autobuild I just did.  
> 
> oops ;-)
> 
> That was one of my "early sins" in samba, when I did the posix
> acl backends in the vfs layer. I guess the stub  IRIX module
> was more of a TODO to fill it later on. Since it has not
> happened until today, it is ok to have removed it... :-)

Thanks Michael,

BTW, on the build farm the SerNET-IRIX build looks pretty sick overall.
Should we switch the host to gcc in hope of having any testing on IRIX?

Andrew Bartlett

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