Re: Why does setting a default ACL on a file give EACCES?
Matt McCutchen <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:48:08 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.acl.devel |
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| Message-ID | <1145562489.2140.1.camel@mattlaptop> |
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:54 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > 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. I realize that trying to set a default ACL on a file should be an error. I am saying that an error message more appropriate than "Permission denied" should be used. "Invalid argument" would do. "Not a directory" is another possibility. -- Matt McCutchen [email protected] http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/ _______________________________________________ acl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://acl.bestbits.at/mailman/listinfo/acl-devel