<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:46 PM, William H. Magill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:magill@mac.com" target="_blank">magill@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have no statistics, but when I retired back in 2003, almost nobody used ACLs even though they had been around for several years. Looking at the ACL man page, it appears that BSD included them in 2002. . . . and just doing some quick googles, it appears that posix.1e is "still" in "draft" form (since 2000), but that is a whole different issue. :)</blockquote></div><br>Not even a draft, technically --- POSIX explicitly abandoned them (just as *BSD, Linux, Solaris, Apple, etc. were implementing them, naturally). It looks like a future ACL standard may be proposed based on NFS4 ACLs at some point.<br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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