POSIX ACL API in glibc?

[Mark Brown]

> in our current distributions the subset of ACL manipulation functions 
defined 
> in POSIX 1003.1e draft 17 is located in a separate library <libacl.so>. 
I 
> think these functions should become part of glibc. What's the official 
glibc 
> position about this?
> 
> The current implementation might not be ready for glibc out of the box, 
but we 
> at SuSE (Andreas Jaeger and myself) would be willing to work on fixing 
the 
> remaining issues.

This document never became a standard, and is not going to be anytime 
soon.
(see current IEEE POSIX status at http://www.pasc.org/standing/sd11.html )

I recommend strongly against this.


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Mark S. Brown 
Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Server Group
bmark@us.ibm.com
512.838.3926