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Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:20:36 +0000
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
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        Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised extended attributes interface
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In-Reply-To: <20011205143209.C44610@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com>; from nathans@sgi.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:32:10PM +1100
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Hi,

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:32:10PM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
 
> Here is the revised interface.  I believe it takes into account
> the issues raised so far - further suggestions are also welcome,
> of course.

This is looking OK as far as EAs go.  However, there is still no
mention of ACLs specifically, except an oblique reference to
""system.posix_acl_access".  

Is there no consensus on this?  In previous proposals we've at least
tried to deal with it to some extent.

Cheers,
 Stephen
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