I haven't been reading the list for a while (I haven't even checked if
I'm still subscribed yet) so sorry if this has already been mentioned
but ....

Is anyone else interested in support for ACLs on NetBSD ? Some time
ago (4 years ?) I suggested that people should look at a new file system
version with the other BSD communities that would support extended
meta data. At the time I talked about its use for typing file data for
mime like support as well as ACL support. The response I go twas shall
we say non-supportive with many people saying that /etc/magic with the
file command plus the current standard unix permission bits were all
that was needed.

Anyway I'm bring the topic up again because Samba is now making use
of this very feature in commercial OS/s and soon Linux. I will no doubt
have to move at least one of my NetBSD servers to Linux soon as its
primary task is to support a community of Windows NT users but I'd
prefer to stick with NetBSD I find it more reliable then Linux.

What are other peoples feelings on the topic now. Do others feel it is
now a good time to consider supporting ACLs and other extended meta
data issues ? Maybe the code from freeBSD can be ported ?

See http://us4.samba.org/samba/development.html

Also I have some references to what others OSs are up to :

> Take a look at this :
>
> POSIX 1e draft links:
> http://www.guug.de/~winni/posix.1e/download.html
>
>
> What FreeBSD is doing:
> http://www.watson.org/fbsd-hardening/posix1e/
>
> also look at
>
> http://www.trustedbsd.org/
>
>
>
> What Linux is doing:
> http://acl.bestbits.at/
>
>
>
>


Well thanks for reading things far down, 

 --Sean