setfacl(2.4.0.15): for next year !!!!!

Wed Dec 23 11:30:00 GMT 2015

On Dec 23 12:10, Houder wrote:
> On 2015年12月23日 11:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Dec 22 15:42, Houder wrote:
> >>The
> >>difference is that 'ls -l' on FC19 shows an additional plus sign.
> >
> >This is a problem in ls itself. The reason is that with the start of
> >reimplementing the ACL handling (back in August 2014), the definition of
> >MIN_ACL_ENTRIES changed from 4 to 3.
> >
> >I recall having a discussion with eblake (coreutils maintainer) via IRC
> >in 2014 where we discussed this. At that time the mask entry was only
> >fasked, so we came up with the fact that there's never an aclent_t with
> >4 entries, so ls is still using the old definition to maintain backward
> >compat.
> >
> >With the new code in 2.4.0 it's probably time to drop this Cygwin-specific
> >workaround in coreutils (but it doesn't hurt much either).
>> Does't hurt?
>> Well, without the plus sign, the output of 'ls -l' looks suspicious/weird to
> me in case of the example above ...

Now that you mention it... I agree. It might hurt. But it's a rather
seldom border case, so the confusion should be rather limited :)
> Perhaps Eric agrees ...

Yes, he very likely agrees.
Corinna
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