Here is a set of three patches which implement some general
infrastructure and on top of that, acls for tmpfs and /dev/pts files.
We may want to factor out some of the current ext2 and ext3 acl code
and use the generic layer instead. Comments welcome.
Regards,
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Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX PRODUCTS GMBH
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:13:40PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Here is a set of three patches which implement some general
> infrastructure and on top of that, acls for tmpfs and /dev/pts files.
Why would you want ACLs on /dev/pts?
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:55, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 05:13:40PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > Here is a set of three patches which implement some general
> > infrastructure and on top of that, acls for tmpfs and /dev/pts files.
>
> Why would you want ACLs on /dev/pts?
That's actually a good question. The patch allows to give several people
access to the same terminal, which sometimes comes in handy with tools
like screen (at least in its current version), and that's what the patch
originally was meant for. I've just talked this over this with one of
the maintainers though, and there are probably better ways than handling
this at the file permission level, like passing open file descriptors
between processes. So unless somebody comes up with a convincing
application, that patch probably should stay out.
Cheers,
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Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH