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Re: Why does acl_set_fd always try to set system.posix_acl_access ?


From: Andreas Grünbacher
Subject: Re: Why does acl_set_fd always try to set system.posix_acl_access ?
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:35:36 +0200

Am Di., 14. Apr. 2020 um 20:49 Uhr schrieb Gregg Leventhal
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> Why does this function default to setting ACL_EA_ACCESS (i.e 
> system.posix_acl_access) ?

That's what the function is documented to do.

> This seems to result in a lot of unnecessary fsetxattr calls for any caller 
> of this function (e.g /bin/cp).

What do you mean? Depending on the options given, cp sets the
permissions of target files in a specific way, and it uses various
acl_* and other functions to achieve that.



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