Access Control List support? (Unsubscribed)

Martijn Klingens klingens at kde.org
Fri Mar 4 20:10:05 GMT 2005


On Friday 04 March 2005 19:44, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 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?

That of course depends on the application, but for example in the cases where 
a move is implemented as a copy + delete or a file save is a rename of the 
old file and creation of a new file there needs to be explicit support for 
ACLs to preserve permissions.

-- 
Martijn




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