Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: drop ACL support

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On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 12:11:03 -0700 Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2018-07-14 at 16:06 -0300, Ernesto A. Fernández wrote:
> > The HFS+ Access Control Lists have not worked at all for the past
> > five
> > years, and nobody seems to have noticed. Besides, POSIX draft ACLs
> > are
> > not compatible with MacOS. Drop the feature entirely.
> > 
> 
> Bugs need to be fixed but not to drop. Otherwise, it needs to drop the
> whole HFS+ support from the kernel.

Yes, we could make it depend on BROKEN and hope that someone comes
along and fixes it - there's little cost in carrying such a thing.

Or maybe it can never work for some reason and should indeed be
dropped, I don't know.  I was interested in understanding the reasoning
behind hch's ack, but I can't find it on linux-fs-devel.  Help?




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