Re: [RFC v7 13/41] richacl: Check if an acl is equivalent to a file mode

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2015-09-17 20:22 GMT+02:00 J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 12:27:08PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>> ACLs are considered equivalent to file modes if they only consist of
>> owner@, group@, and everyone@ entries, the owner@ permissions do not
>> depend on whether the owner is a member in the owning group, and no
>> inheritance flags are set.  This test is used to avoid storing richacls
>> if the acl can be computed from the file permission bits.
>
> We're assuming here that it's OK for us to silently rearrange an ACL as
> long as the result is still equivalent (in the sense that the permission
> algorithm would always produce the same result).
>
> I guess that's OK by me, but it might violate user expectations in some
> simple common cases, so may be worth mentioning in documentation
> someplace if we don't already.

I've tried to be clear about that in the man pages.

Thanks,
Andreas
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