Re: Future plans for ACLs?

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "PE" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:23:02 -0800 (PST)

  >> Hi, are there any plans to support ACLs in the future?
  PE> There are no specific plans.  POSIX 1003.1-2001 has something to
  PE> say about tar extensions, so we'd like to be compatible with
  PE> that.  Solaris tar supports ACLs, I think, but with a private
  PE> extension, so we probably wouldn't use their format.

Also Jörg Schilling's star supports ACLs, but again in a non-standard
way I think.

  >> Linux version 2.6 will support ACLs by default I think
  PE> It will be interesting to see which flavor.  ACLs are not
  PE> standardized.

I'm under the impression that the patches by Andreas Grünbacher at
http://acl.bestbits.at/ have already been accepted into 2.5.


The reason I'm asking is because I have a backup program (see
http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/) that writes data in gnu-tar format
volumes.  I'd like to continue using gnutar format, but I'd also like
to support ACLs by the time standard GNU/Linux distributions like
redhat or debian do.

    The way I see it there are three steps:

1) The GNU-tar people write some document describing the new format.
2) Various libraries in various languages get written to support the
   new format.
3) People like me use the new libraries.

This process might take a while, so I thought I might as bother the
tar people now and find out if something like 1) is planned.  Thanks
for any information.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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