[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

Shawn Walker swalker at opensolaris.org
Wed Jan 14 11:50:32 PST 2009


Fredrich Maney wrote:
> I think you meant "single user machines", not "single machine users".
> Those are two very different scenarios. I can see not using ACLs in
> single user machines, of which I suspect there are far fewer than you
> think, but in a multi-user single machine, I certainly see ACLs being
> used quite extensively.
> 
> Also, one thing to mention, GNU chmod and ls won't have any problems
> with UFS ACLs, only ZFS ACLs.

Semantics, but yes, basically.  But as for OpenSolaris 2008.x, I suspect 
there are far more "single user machines" as you put it then multi-user 
machines.

-- 
Shawn Walker



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