ACL lists (was Re: file attributes)

[Paul Goldsmith]

In article <49110001 at hpcupt3.cup.hp.com> shankar at hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Shankar Unni) writes:
|SLIGHT DRIFT:
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|In comp.unix.wizards, gt0178a at prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:
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|> The one implementation of them I saw, tho', HP-UX 7.0's, had
|> a flaw that any time you use 'chmod', it wipes out the ACL list. 
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|Check the -A option to chmod. "preserves the ACL list". It doesn't actually
|modify the ACLs, because there is no simple mapping between ACLs and
|ordinary Unix permissions. Instead, there is chacl(1).
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|BACK TO THE FEATURE FLAMES...
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Are you sure that you are talking about a HP product?  Last time I
looked, ACL were part of the APOLLO operating system that HP has been
killing for the last two years.  I would be surprised that HP was
supporting a non-mainstream (non-POSIX) feature, and based on their
treatment of Apollo DOMAIN-OS, they wouldn't know what to do with a
good idea if it fell in their laps (which it did, and they didn't)
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