Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:40:13 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> Subject: Re: Problem with default ACLs and mask Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0808290838500.63619@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <48B5159B.3070506@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <434F4FF8.9050903@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20051014064145.GA40856@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20051014092250.D66245@fledge.watson.org> <48B5159B.3070506@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >> Since that time, Linux has turned up and implemented the Solaris model, and >> IRIX has switched to the Solaris model also as a result of peer pressure. >> I've previouly looked at switching us, but it tears up our kernel APIs some >> and will require significant testing. I had hoped to do this for FreeBSD >> 6.x but was derailed working on other problems that needed to be fixed. >> My hope is to change the default in FreeBSD 7.x. > > has there been any progress so far? This might encourage me to move to 7.x > (Still on 6.1) Dear Heinrich: Unfortunately, we've not yet made this change, as it's somewhat disruptive on the in-kernel interfaces for VFS. I'd like to see it made for 8.x; on a similar note, we had a Google Summer of Code project to implement support for NT/NFSv4-style ACLs that has made some excellent headway, so we may aso be able to ship support for that in 8.0 as well. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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