From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Subject: File permissions in ext4 Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 14:02:05 +0200 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f174.google.com ([209.85.192.174]:57306 "EHLO mail-pd0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753972Ab3HAMCH (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Aug 2013 08:02:07 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id 10so1953401pdc.33 for ; Thu, 01 Aug 2013 05:02:06 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, I am attempting to read the file permissions from a file in EXT4, but I'm not sure where it is stored? Any ideas? I thought this would be the ACL, and I read both ext4_inode.i_file_acl_lo and ext4_inode.l_i_file_acl_high and they are both zero, despite the fact that the file has 644 permission set. Is the ACL actually used for anything? thanks in advance =) -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho