Don Cragun wrote: > > I believe that the default should be POSIX compliant. Let > administrators specify options if they want non-standard behavior. > > ...<snip> > ACLs are not in POSIX. (POSIX does, however, specify two classes of > extended access control mechanisms [known as "additional file access > control mechanisms" and "alternate file access control mechanisms"] and > specifies interactions between chmod() and these classes of file access > control mechanisms. ACLs can be added as additional and/or alternate > file access control mechanism as long as the interactions follow the > standards.) > > I'm confused. How is that the current default behavior is required in order to be POSIX compliant if POSIX doesn't actually standardize ACLs?
-Kyle
