On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 9:11 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:56:00AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: >> Barf. AI seems like a trainwreck waiting to happen. What are the >> chances that userland is going to get this right? > > This is just taken from Windows, so presumably Samba should do the right > thing (with one workaround required--see the discussion of PROTECTED in > the changelog). > >> Still, I do applaud the fact that you're just doing the bare minimum in >> kernel to support userland apps that want this. Thanks for not trying >> to push the propagation of the changed ACEs into the kernel. > > Agreed. But, again, this is just what Windows does. (I wonder whether > there's an OS that's actually tried do any sort of atomic propagation.) NetWare's NSS filesystem did have automatic propagation, but I think that was implemented by composing the permissions along the path to a file at access time. Andreas -- 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
