On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 09:17:48 -0600 Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:00:25 -0600 > > shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >> From: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> > >> Allow setting cifs_acl on the server. > >> Pass on to the server the ACL blob generated by an application. > >> cifs is just a pass-through, server decides whether to enforce/apply > >> the ACL blob composed by an application. > >> > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Seems sane enough and is probably more useful than trying to map all of > > this to POSIX acl's and modes. I wonder though...if you do this, then > > the permissions and possibly ownership change. Do you need to > > owner/group will not change, only the ACL (DACL). > So I can't change group ownership on the file by modifying the DACL? Also, while I don't particularly like the cifsacl acl-to-mode mapping code, it still exists. If someone changes the ACL, don't you need to account for the possibility that the mode has also changed? -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
