Thank you James for your viewing. * In general, it can give a more fine grained and flexible DAC to msg queue obj. * NFSARK(A distro) wants all posix ipc objects to support ACL, including mqueue. * Posix semphore and shmem both support ACL, but mqueue as one of the three basic ipc doesn't. * At least, it may save one note sentence for MQ_OVERVIEW(7) ^_^ "Linux does not currently (2.6.26) support the use of access control lists (ACLs) for POSIX message queues." http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/mq_overview.7.html On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:33 PM, James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Zhou Peng wrote: > >> This patch adds ACL supports to mqueue filesystem. >> Based on Linux 3.0.4. > > Why is this necessary, and who is planning to use it? > > Are any distros likely to enable this? > > > - James > -- > James Morris > <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> > -- Zhou Peng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html