Re: [Acl-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xattr.conf: remove entries for NFSv4 ACLs namespaces

[Kamil Dudka]

On Thursday, May 16, 2019 4:32:31 PM CEST Kamil Dudka wrote:
> Could you please have a look at the proposed patches and provide feedback?
> 
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/acl-devel/2019-03/msg00000.html
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/acl-devel/2019-03/msg00001.html

Is there anything I can do to move this forward?

> Kamil
> 
> On Monday, March 4, 2019 4:36:56 PM CEST Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > ... in order to make it possible to copy NFSv4 ACLs by GNU coreutils'
> > implementation of cp(1).  There is no way to make GNU coreutils copy
> > extended attributes that are matched by any entry from /etc/xattr.conf.
> > 
> > GNU coreutils upstream says that NFS-related entries should be removed
> > from the default /etc/xattr.conf to make copying of NFSv4 ACLs work:
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2019-03/msg00008.html
> > ---
> > 
> >  xattr.conf | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/xattr.conf b/xattr.conf
> > index 7361fbd..1ac5b2f 100644
> > --- a/xattr.conf
> > +++ b/xattr.conf
> > @@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
> > 
> >  # skip all extended attributes that are matched by any of the below
> > 
> > patterns, # regardless of the specified action.
> > 
> > -system.nfs4_acl                    permissions
> > -system.nfs4acl                     permissions
> > 
> >  system.posix_acl_access            permissions
> >  system.posix_acl_default   permissions
> >  trusted.SGI_ACL_DEFAULT            skip            # xfs
> >  specific