On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
It's a huge piece of work, so while he's pulled in some minor bits, a lot
remains left to review. We plan to hold an NFSv4 ACL session at BSDCan,
although I hope that we will be able to get quite a bit of it into the tree
before then. Rick Macklem also has patches to expose Edward's
NFSv4-semantic ACLs via his NFSv4 server code (and possibly also the client
side?). Among other complex aspects to the change, the ACL ABI for system
calls is significantly changed, there are significant VFS changes, and we
need to review the merging of POSIX.1e/NTFS/SMB/CIFS/NFSv4/Solaris/Apple
ACLs and make sure we ended up with a model that will satisfy application
developers, etc.
A lot of interesting stuff in the answer to a simple question... I'm looking
forward to see all this comming in.
Ditto. One of the reasons I'm so impressed with this GSoC project is that it
was indeed a very, very complex problem to work on. It is my hope that we can
ship with NFSv4 ACLs as an experimental feature in 8.0, but we'll see how it
goes over the next few months. I'm probably the bottleneck here as code
reviewer.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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