Thank you, Derrick, for bringing forward this proposal. Thanks, folks, for all your comments. Although this thread is supposed not to go into implementation details, I'd like to answer some emerging questions by giving reasons for the currently proposed implementation.
Indeed the only reason, why the postfix notation has been preferred to a possibly more intuitive prefix notation, was the common parsing method, which would wrongly assume '-' prefixed arguments to be command options. Complex settings like 'a+l-r+' would have to be split up into a series of simple ones. As the current implementation allows to set rights for a specific PTS entry more than once within a single call to fs setacl, so would this change. Actually, the proposed change does not (want to) introduce any uncommon characteristics which are not already there. Likewise it was not intended to let the ability of adding or subtracting rights cross the line between positive and negative ACLs. It can and should work within both lists independently. That way the change could be most beneficial and most simple at the same time. Rainer _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
