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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#13226: 24.3.50; set-file-acl on MS Windows shall check ACL string format |
Date: | Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:43 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I think we are taking this feature out of proportions. It was > supposed to allow copying extended attributes from file to file; for > that, we don't need to care whether the ACL is trivial or not. But > now we seem to start down the road of trying to interpret the ACL, > which would need much more complex machinery. That makes sense, yes. BTW, I don't think we should document that file-acl returns a string. The representation should be documented as undocumented and prone to change (ideally opaque). Stefan
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