It could be mapped, but would have a lot of additional constraints. For
example with an ACL, you can generally assign any permission to any user
or group. With Unix-like - you only get one definable group, one fixed
group (other), and one user. So I guess mapping it would be easy, but I
would think in that case we would want to have discoverable capabilities
for determining if more than one user, group etc can be added so that
programmatically such things are predictable.
Mario Ivankovits wrote:
Hi Andy!
The reality does remain however that some level of native interface
will be required for many of these, but that is an implementation
detail that matters for each specific file system and should not
prevent adding a support framework to VFS. While I haven't looked at
what the underlying library support, it occurs to me that a CIFS
system might be the ideal candidate to use for developing the ACL
test case as it should be doable with no native code.
Yes, I thought to start with CIFS too.
But didnt you think it might be possible to map the simple unix like
permissions into a ACL like structure?
I think the ACL is the way to go, especially as there already exists
implementatins for linux too.
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Mario
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