Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Fri Nov 6 20:04:00 GMT 2009


> History.  I knew the Solaris ACL API much earlier than I learned about
> the POSIX ACL API, and the fact that POSIX 1003.1e was never really
> finalized as a standard, but rather withdrawn while still being a draft
> back in 1999 didn't give me any confidence that it's worth to implement.
> Above all, the Solaris API is much simpler than the POSIX draft.

Doesn't seem worth changing the API just to get a "free" getfacl -R.  That
should be straightforward to implement... for someone else :|


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