Re: Why does setting a default ACL on a file give EACCES?

Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:54:55 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.file-systems.acl.devel
Organization	SUSE Labs / Novell Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thursday 20 April 2006 03:01, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Dear ACL people,
>
> Why does attempting to set a default ACL on a regular file (not a
> folder) using lsetxattr(2) give EACCES, "Permission denied"?  I think
> EINVAL, "Invalid argument" would make much more sense.

Default ACLs serve to define the ACL that objects created inside a directory 
will be assigned. The concept of default ACL makes no sense for a file; you 
cannot create a file in a file.

Andreas
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