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Re: [Acl-devel] Few questions regarding the ACL implementation in Linux
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Jan Engelhardt |
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Re: [Acl-devel] Few questions regarding the ACL implementation in Linux side |
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Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:40:16 +0100 (CET) |
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Alpine 2.11 (LSU 23 2013-08-11) |
On Monday 2013-10-28 17:11, Guru Padmavathi wrote:
>Hi Jan,
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>Sry for the incorrect statement, I'm pretty new to Linux, hence I think I
>made a wrong statement. Is it possible to tell me why fsetxattr is not
>supported on sockets.
It is not implemented.
>Why was this limitation made. (This might be a very
>trivial question, but I have no experience working on Linux kernel).
Because _filesystem_ ACLs do not make sense on _network_ sockets.