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This is a Yogi Berra type comment. "ACLs aren't supported. Nobody uses them."
by asveikau 4y ago
This is a Yogi Berra type comment. "ACLs aren't supported. Nobody uses them."
- wmf 4y agoNot really. Linux supports "old" posix ACLs and chungy is complaining that it doesn't support "new" rich ACLs. My point is why bother upgrading a feature that no one uses.
- chungy 4y agoI think "no one" is a fairly tall claim: They are well-used on all the operating systems that do support them. Mind also, "old POSIX ACLs" came from a POSIX draft: they never made it into POSIX. While being an extremely simple expansion of the Unix modes, they are only ever additive and do not support fine-grained permissions that NFSv4 allows for. They're sometimes better than the standard mode bits, but they very often come up short of being useful in the real world.