posix acl

[Greg Silverman]

I create them. I use fuse to create a virtual file system. Those attribute
only have the meaning I give them. I determine at runtime which privileges
a user has for any file or folder, independent of permission in the
physical storage. That is, if I knew the binary format used to represent
permissions.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:35 PM Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Greg Silverman <silvermangb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I am developing with fuse. What are the binary formats for posix acls &
> > security settings? Where can I find these so I can respond to the xattr
> > calls correctly?
>
> Hmmm, surely, as a file system developer they are opaque blobs.
>
> That is, you don't care what the format of those blobs is. You simply
> store them or retrieve them?
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Sharpe
> (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
>