Re: [PATCH] POSIX ACL support

[Romain Francoise]

Hi,

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, this also needs to be handled in a similar way (tho I'm not sure
> what you mean by "which doesn't preserve the modes" since the docstring
> says "This function always sets the file modes of the output file to match
> the input file.").

Oh, right. I guess I meant "which doesn't take a `preserve-modes'
argument"...

> But we could start by providing a new file-extended-attributes which
> returns a self-descriptive list of attributes, and then
> set-file-extended-attributes which takes that list and applies it.

Okay. Do you envision this as a Lisp-level API which uses lower-level
subroutines for each type (set-file-foo, similar to what we have today),
or as a C-level API which abstracts the different metadata types (in which
case we would remove file-foo/set-file-foo)?

Thanks!