On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, David Bartley <dtbar...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> I considered this. There are at least 3 different variants of ACL's > (POSIX, NFSv4 and MacOS X) and they are generally incompatible. UMich > created patches to acl/libacl so that you could set NFS4 acl's via > getfacl/setfacl using POSIX ACL syntax [1]. However, they recommend > that you don't use them due to the formats not being fully compatible. Perhaps some kind of scheme-identifying prefix could help to solve this problem. However, that would probably make it harder to decide if two ACL representations in fact represent equivalent ACLs. James.
