From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 2:38:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79BA37B401; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:38:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F8B43F9B; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 02:38:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h13AcXe13080; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:38:33 -0200 Message-ID: <3E3E46A8.2060109@tcoip.com.br> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 08:38:32 -0200 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030128 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Robert Watson , CURRENT Subject: Re: copy extended attributes References: <3E3A5500.60109@tcoip.com.br> <20030131224420.Y52941@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> In-Reply-To: <20030131224420.Y52941@12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > Forgive me for being dense, but can you expand on your concerns? My concern is setting various mac labels to various files in /etc, and having these files keep the labels after a mergemaster. > > Doug > > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > >>I'm starting to have a bad feeling about mergemaster and /etc's full of >>acl and mac labels... >> >>Robert Watson wrote: >> >>>I have local patches submitted by Chris Faulhaber to copy ACLs when a file >>>is copied (or moved between file systems) that I've been meaning to finish >>>testing and merge. Likewise, for gzip, bzip, and others when a file is >>>replaced. This wouldn't address the general issue of copying extended >>>attributes, but is a necessary step. Presumably if we did extend cp, et >>>al, to copy EA's, they should explicitly copy only user namespace EAs, not >>>system EAs. There's been some recent e-mail on the Linux side about >>>interfaces to copy ACLs from one file to another, but I haven't had a >>>chance to review those changes as yet to see whether we should pick them >>>up. >> >> > -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca TCO Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net You can't teach people to be lazy -- either they have it, or they don't. -- Dagwood Bumstead To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message