From: "Frank Filz" <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v23 08/22] richacl: Compute maximum file masks from an acl
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:38:50 -0700
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> > Hmm, but does that result in examining the whole ACL for most access
> checks, at least for files where most of the accesses are by the owner, or a
> member of a specific group (with perhaps a ton of special case users added
> on the end)?
> 
> I don't understand -- what does this algorithm have to do with access checks?

Oh, sorry, misread the patch... got caught up looking at a tree and not seeing the forest...

Frank



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