On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:18:02AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I am contemplating the upload of a version of coreutils that will have > support for file acls. (I.e., mv & cp -p will preserve acls, and ls -l > will indicate whether a file has an acl.) Doing this would promote > libacl1 and libattr1 to base and required status. (Or demote coreutils > to optional, but that would probably break something.) Thus, I am > soliciting input about whether this is something people would like to > see. The advantage is better support for acl's in debian (which will be > even more important with the 2.6 linux kernel, as they are supported > without a 3rd party patch). The downside is additional dependencies for > coreutils and an increase in the size of base on linux. Since our production fileservers at work have been patched for ACL support for some time, an ACL-aware cp command would certainly be welcome here. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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