7 Starting with this version, pylibacl is licensed under LGPL 2.1,
8 Febryary 1999 or any later versions (see README and COPYING).
13 A few more Linux-specific functions:
15 - add the ACL.equiv_mode() method, which will return the equivalent
16 octal mode if this is a basic ACL and raise an IOError exception
19 - add the acl_extended(...) function, which will check if an fd or path
25 FreeBSD 7.x will have almost all the acl manipulation functions that
26 Linux has, with the exception of __getstate__/__setstate__. As a
27 workaround, use the str() and ACL(text=...) methods to pass around
28 textual representations.
33 At module level there are now a few constants exported for easy-checking
34 at runtime what features have been compiled in:
36 - HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports the
39 - HAS_ACL_CHECK, denoting whether ACL instances support the check()
42 - HAS_ACL_ENTRY, denoting whether ACL manipulation is possible and the
43 Entry and Permset classes are available
45 - HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK, denoting whether the acl_extended function is
48 - HAS_EQUIV_MODE, denoting whether ACL instances support the
54 Many functions have now unittests, which is a good thing.
63 Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl:
65 - add ACL(mode=...), implementing acl_from_mode
66 - add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text
67 - add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp
68 - add ACL().check, which is a more descriptive function than validate