Subject: Re: Support for ACLs
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/12/2001 22:38:50
Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com> writes:

> While I think one VOP could do it, I'd say let's look at what other
> OSs are doing (especially NFS) and do something not too far off of
> that.

DUX: has `property lists' (generic metadata), and there are three new
vop's VOP_{GET,SET,DEL}PROPLIST to access them. NFS is handled by a
separate daemon, proplistd, don't know if the protocol is used by
anything else.

/Johan