[BProc] Re: node ACLs

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:23:05PM -0400, Nicholas Henke wrote:
> Any ideas on how hard it would be to add access control lists to nodes?
> We are getting pretty hard pressure here to support multiple users per
> node. I would be doing the coding, just looking for ideas and a sanity
> check.

Here's my plan on that one:

 1: Wait till I port to 2.6

 2: Then use all the existing POSIX ACL stuff.  This should be trivial
 at that point since "bpfs" (the node file system in BProc 4.0.0pre1)
 already has support for arbitrary extended file attributes.

Until then, the UNIX file system-like semantics are pretty limiting
for that case and it won't be easy to fix.

It might be fairly easy to skip straight to step 2 (on BProc 4, not
3.2.6) since there are some ACL patches for Linux 2.4.  I haven't
tried that so I have no idea what the feasibility of that will be.

- Erik