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Subject: Re: What's left over.
From: "Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 21:31, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > ext2/ext3 ACLs and Extended Attributes
> 
> I don't know why people still want ACL's. There were noises about them for 
> samba, but I'v enot heard anything since. Are vendors using this?
> 

I am sure I don't count (not being a vendor), but Intermezzo offers
support for this (they are waiting on feature freeze to redo it to 2.5
according to an email I have).  I want this stuff.  Yes, u+g+w is nice,
but good ACLs are even better.  Please, if this is technically correct
in implementation, do put it in.

Thank you,
Trever

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