Re: [PATCH] file-has-acl: revert unintended change in behavior of ls -L

[Kamil Dudka]

On Mon October 3 2011 15:45:36 Bruno Haible wrote:
> In fact, the code already does this, at the beginning of the function
> file_has_acl. So in case c) the big compound statement is skipped, and the
> function immediately does a "return 0". The patch that you proposed on
> 2011-04-06 and committed on 2011-07-22 therefore can only have an effect in
> the cases a) and b). In the case b) you have introduced a regression,
> that's what you've discovered now. And in the case a) - when the file is
> not a symlink: are you saying in <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/720325> that
> calling acl_extended_file on a non-symlink will trigger autofs mounts??

Note the bug above has a Fedora sibling with more background included:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/692823

Kamil