In message <199504200525.WAA29146@sunrise.gv.ssi1.com>, Don Lewis writes:
> How is this ACL stuff going to affect all the user-land code that
> calculates access permissions by calling stat(), getuid(), getgroups()
> because of the generations of programmers that have been told the evils
> of calling access().

As long as the system call (stat) calls ufs_access(), they will all be
handled the same way.


> How is the ACL stuff going to interact with NFS?  If the ACL info is
> stored on the server, how is the client supposed to check whether a
> process is allowed to open() a file based on the (possibly cached)
> attributes it fetched from the server.

I really don't know, as I know very little as to how NFS is implanted
into the kernel...

--Toby.
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