Access Control List support? (Unsubscribed)

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday 04 March 2005 14:51, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 20:50, Digital Penguin wrote:
> > I am currently unsubscribed, but does Konqueror support access control
> > list (ACL)?  Does KDE applications preserve ACL when loading & saving
> > file? Does the new Trash support ACL so that restored file ACL is
> > preserved? This would be a worthwhile feature adding to KDE 3.4.  At a
> > later date (probably KDE 3.5/4.0) you could then add support for
> > SELinux.  I do hope you do add support for ACL in the upcoming release of
> > KDE and eventualy SELinux.
>
> KDE does not have support for ACLs at the moment. I agree that it is badly
> missing. We have had a few patches for it, but for some reason they never
> made it further. You may want to check bugs.kde.org and search for ACL.

Aren't the mentioned examples handled by the filesystem?
Or does an application need to handle ACLs itself if it is 
reading/writing/renaming an ACL controlled file?

Cheers,
Kevin