"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:20:05AM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote:
>
> > I don't know how much need there is for inheritence here, but if a lot
> > of attributes will need it I think it should be supported in the
> > interface instead. (though hardlinks really make this hard)
>
> POSIX makes an unambiguous definition of inheritence --- inheritence
> is applied on file creation. Hard links only create a new directory
> entry, not a file, so the ACLs on the linked file don't change.
> Similar rules apply to rename. Basically, you don't want things like
> mv and ln to modify the ACLs on an existing file (although of course
> the ACLs on the directory containing the new dirent may change the
> effective permissions by removing the right to access the dirent in
> the first place).
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
I am not convinced that it is necessarily bad for mv and ln to change the permissions.
I mean, they
do that currently, why not allow it to happen for ACLs also?
Hans
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