Re: ls, chmod options to display or set ACLs?

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> I'm proposing to add an option to coreutils 'ls' to show the contents of ACLs,
> and to coreutils 'chmod' to set or remove ACLs.
>
> Opinions?

I like both ideas.
...
> I would propose to make it platform independent, so that it can be documented
> in a simple way, and so that scripts relying on GNU chmod could be written
> platform-independently.
>
> Opinions?

I agree.  Otherwise, there would be little point.