Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On MacOS X, HP-UX, Solaris, the /bin/chmod program can set ACLs. [1] > On MacOX X, IRIX, the /bin/ls program has an option to display the contents of > ACLs. [2]
Solaris 'ls' can also display ACLs; it's the -v and -V options. Please see <http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5165/ls-1>. > I'm proposing to add an option to coreutils 'ls' to show the contents of ACLs, > and to coreutils 'chmod' to set or remove ACLs. I like this idea. > I would propose to make it platform independent, so that it can be documented > in a simple way, and so that scripts relying on GNU chmod could be written > platform-independently. I also like this idea. My personal preference is for the new Solaris-style ACL syntax for ls and chmod; it's Sun's 2nd-generation design and is fairly well thought-out. The downside is that for backward-compatibility reasons Sun supports different syntaxes for "old"-style (POSIX draft) and "new"-style (NFSv4) ACLs, and this is confusing. If it helps, for a brief real-worldish summary of the situation from the user's point of view there's this recent blog entry: <http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=939>. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
