On 02/20/2016 05:37 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Hi Michael, > > thanks again for all the feedback. I've followed all your suggestions; > again, please see the github repo for the latest version: > > https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/richacl > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Andreas, >> >> Here's a few more comments on the current richacl(7) page >> that I fetched from the git repo. >> [...] >>> .HP >>> .BR dir_inherit "\ (" d ): >>> The entry is inheritable for directories. >> >> "When this flag appears in the ACL entry of a directory, then that entry is >> inherited by new subdirectories created in the directory." >> >> Is that text that I propose correct? > > It's not entirely wrong, but only a small part of the truth. Entries > are inherited such that the permissions in file_inherit entries become > effective for access checking for new files, and the permissions in > dir_inherit entries become effective for access checking for new > directories, recursively. > > Your feedback prompted me to look into the inheritance flag > computation more closely once again, and I found bugs. The steps of > the algorithm are explained in the section "Permissions at > file-creation time", by the way. Hmmm... writing and refining documentation helps find code bugs. Who knew? :-) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
