Re: Improve support for ACLs in coreutils (ls & chmod) following the Solaris way

2023-01-17 Thread Paul Eggert
On 1/16/23 07:03, Ondrej Valousek wrote: Is this something I would find support in both coreutils and Gnulib? Works for me. Though I have to wonder: why isn't this stuff in a library that Gnulib and/or coreutils can use? It seems a bit odd to introduce a reasonably major security feature lik

Re: Improve support for ACLs in coreutils (ls & chmod) following the Solaris way

2023-01-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Pádraig Brady wrote: > So as we see there are lots of "additional attributes" > with dedicated programs to manipulate them. > What's the big advantage of merging with ls and chmod, > over the current situation of separate utilities? In [1] I'm arguing: * A feature that has impact on security, a

Re: Improve support for ACLs in coreutils (ls & chmod) following the Solaris way

2023-01-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/01/2023 15:03, Ondrej Valousek wrote: Hi, As per our conversation with Bruno I was thinking if it would make a sense to extend support of ACLs in gnulib/coreutils, mainly covering "ls" (1st stage) and "chmod" (2nd stage) with the goal to have the ACLs better understandable for end users

Re: Improve support for ACLs in coreutils (ls & chmod) following the Solaris way

2023-01-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Ondrej Valousek wrote: > Is this something I would find support in both coreutils and Gnulib? Regarding Gnulib: Yes, for code that has its proper place in Gnulib, you have my support. Bruno

Improve support for ACLs in coreutils (ls & chmod) following the Solaris way

2023-01-16 Thread Ondrej Valousek
Hi, As per our conversation with Bruno I was thinking if it would make a sense to extend support of ACLs in gnulib/coreutils, mainly covering "ls" (1st stage) and "chmod" (2nd stage) with the goal to have the ACLs better understandable for end users. For "ls" we would: - Introduce a new fla