On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 09:21:43PM -0300, Ernesto A. Fernández wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 05:07:48PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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? > > > > Sure, it's an old discussion: > > https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=150813973409081&w=2 > > It's actually pretty easy to get it to work and I first sent patches to > do just that, but I was talked out of it. So what do you say? Will you pick this up?
