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

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 21:51, Scott Mcdermott wrote:

> 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' ?

I think it's a posix requirement that ACL_MASK be returned by stat(). 
It kind of makes sense that if I have a file with permission 600, I
shouldn't have to worry about anyone else being able to access it.

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