Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:20:18 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary	additional namespace to ReiserFS
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* Matthias Andree (ma+rfs@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
> With respect to Hans's reasoning about name spaces, is there an official
> standard that mandates a particular API for the ACL stuff ("POSIX")?

POSIX ACL's sit defined in a withdrawn POSIX spec (1003.1e).  The API
doesn't specify the fs/vfs level detail (other than supporting, user,
group, other and mask acls), and gives a userspace API for accessing
the ACL info (with simple functions like acl_get_file() which you should
find in libacl and can fit many os level implementations).  Not sure it
helps much.

thanks,
-chris
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