linux-kernel - Re: richacl(7) man page review comments

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Message-ID: <56C0F150.60008@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:27:44 +0100
From:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: richacl(7) man page review comments

On 02/12/2016 11:25 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages@...il.com> wrote:
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> I'll probably have quite a few more comments on this page as I get to
>> understand RichACLs better. Here's some comments from an initial
>> reading.
> 
> thanks a lot for all the feedback to the man-pages. I've more or less
> made all the suggested changes but didn't get to adding examples yet
> (that's not so easy).
> 
> The changes are here:
> 
>   https://github.com/andreas-gruenbacher/richacl

Thanks. I'll send a few further comments. But I hope to send
more in the future.

>> So, an initial comment. It seems to me to that this page (but
>> not setrichacl(1) and getrichacl(1)) should ultimately land in
>> man-pages (just like acl(7)), since we're talking about a kernel
>> feature. Make sense?
> 
> We could sure move acl(5) and richacl(7) there.

We already have acl(5) (now "acl(7)" in man pages) ;-).

Cheers,

Michael



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