Re: getfacl doesn't show same output as ls?

David Kleikamp on Mon  7/06 21:33 -0500:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:08, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
> >          $ getfacl thistestfile
> >         # file: thistestfile
> >         # owner: smcdermott
> >         # group: qdn
> >         user::rw-
> >         user:smcdermott:rwx             #effective:rw-
> >         group::r-x                      #effective:r--
> >         mask::rw-
> >         other::r--
> > 
> >          $ ls -l thistestfile
> >         -rw-rw-r--+   1 smcdermott qdn             0 Jun  7 19:59
> >         thistestfile
> > 
> > I do not understand why `ls -l' shows ACL_GROUP_OBJ having
> > the write bit, but the "group::r-x" in getfacl(1) shows it
> > without?
> 
> The group permissions in 'ls -l' show the ACL_MASK rather
> than ACL_GROUP_OBJ.  The man page mentions this under the
> section "CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ACL ENTRIES AND FILE
> PERMISSION BITS".

I read that about six times and did not see it, thank you
for pointing it out.

using the group bits for ACL_MASK is a somewhat bizarre
change from ordinary permissions...I take it the reason for
this is because the mask is deemed more useful / common to
want to see in an ordinary `ls' output without having to
invoke `getfacl' ?
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