Re: ACL in NetBSD?

[Hrishikesh goyal <mhrishikesh%student.nitw.ac.in@localhost>]

 I'd like to start with POSIX ACL because they've been implemented on
lots of operating systems, including Solaris and Linux. Although NFSv4
ACLs are richer than POSIX draft ACLs, but most of the kernels
implement NFSv4 ACLs by mapping it to POSIX ACLs and store POSIX ACLs
in the filesystem. In FreeBSD also, NFSv4 ACL is an extension of
POSIX.1e  API.

Right now I'd like to focus on setting up a syscalls interface for
ACL. NFSv4 support can later be included in by adding options/flags to
syscalls as FreeBSD does (-i, -v options to getfacl).

Hrishikesh


On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Hrishikesh goyal
<mhrishikesh%student.nitw.ac.in@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 01:19:08AM +0530, HRISHIKESH GOYAL wrote:
>>> So I would like to work for adding POSIX ACL in NetBSD. There has been a
>>> short offline discussion with Christos on this, which is added here.
>>
>> Well, the first question is: what kind of ACLs? "POSIX" ACLs are kind of
>> a misnomer as there only ever was a draft that has long expired. Then
>> there are NFSv4 ACLs and the whole NT-style ACLs.
>>
>> Joerg
>
> POSIX