On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:46 PM, William H. Magill <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have no statistics, but when I retired back in 2003, almost nobody used
> ACLs even though they had been around for several years. Looking at the ACL
> man page, it appears that BSD included them in 2002.  . . . and just doing
> some quick googles, it appears that posix.1e is "still" in "draft" form
> (since 2000), but that is a whole different issue. :)


Not even a draft, technically --- POSIX explicitly abandoned them (just as
*BSD, Linux, Solaris, Apple, etc. were implementing them, naturally). It
looks like a future ACL standard may be proposed based on NFS4 ACLs at some
point.

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