On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Zhou Peng wrote: > Hi, how about this patch pls? I'm not convinced that this is a necessary feature for the mainline kernel. > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Zhou Peng <ailvpeng25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * 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 Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
