Current approaches to ACL handling

[simo]

On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 13:28 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> What are the current best practices for ACL handling?
> 
> To my knowledge, it's using EAs to store the ACLs.  Is there any in-depth 
> documentation on this implementation?  Are there any other mechanisms in use?

We store the Windows ACL in an EA and a matching posix ACL translation
on the file, plus a sha hash of the ACL so we can be sure they are in
sync.

I am not aware of any other doc beyond the code.

Simo.


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