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Re: When acl() returns -1


On Jun 27 11:56, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 27 15:40, Dave Korn wrote:
> > > >From: Corinna Vinschen
> > >
> > > > So what's your opinion?  Should acl()
> > > >
> > > >   keep its behaviour since it's not worth to change it for these files
> > > >   which are locked anyway?
> > > >
> > > > or should acl()
> > > >
> > > >   return the correct number of faked acl entries which pretend that
> > > >   nobody has access to these (locked) files?
> > >
> > >   How about keeping acl() the same, and fixing 'ls'?
> >
> > Well... hmm, why not?  Sounds good to me, too.
> 
> At the risk of sounding trite, me too. :-)

Okay...

> What does Linux do when it finds busy files (I think at least NFS allows
> file locking).  Or does that locking not extend to retrieving ACLs?

Linux generally permits to access the file metadata even if the file
is locked, so that's not a problem.  Windows has the incredibly annoying
feature that the metadata is part of the file data so locking the file
also locks accessing metadata :-(


Corinna

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