Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Support for posix ACLs in fuse

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Michael Theall
<mtheall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm currently trying to port my code to take advantage of this. I've
> found myself in sort of a catch-22 situation: I don't know whether to
> pass default_permissions or not.
>
> Right now, I support ACLs by not using default_permissions. However,
> the FUSE_POSIX_ACL capability is only given when default_permissions is
> turned on. If I unconditionally set FUSE_POSIX_ACL in the "want" flags,
> the capability remains disabled if default_permissions is off.
>
> I need to support ACLs on backlevel platforms with default_permissions
> off, and the coming platforms with default_permissions on. How do you
> suggest I determine whether to provide it or not?

Good point.   FUSE_POSIX_ACL needs to be made independent of (but
implying) default_permissions.

Force pushed to fuse.git#for-next with other minor changes.

Thanks,
Miklos
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