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authorGravatar Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>2016-11-22 16:37:13 -0800
committerGravatar Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>2016-11-22 16:39:59 -0800
commit4fdf83f4dd2b0c3a0688d23de23ad953abf473ac (patch)
tree423b655638e6e46e519ed404ac332ce4a141e3fc /doc
parent4175f969bdacf76113f74cc0e8d419aec845317f (diff)
Document that FUSE_CAP_POSIX_ACL turns on -o default_permissions
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diff --git a/doc/mount.fuse.8 b/doc/mount.fuse.8
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@@ -55,9 +55,12 @@ filesystem. The check by the kernel is done in addition to any
permission checks by the filesystem, and both have to succeed for an
operation to be allowed. The kernel performs a standard UNIX permission
check (based on mode bits and ownership of the directory entry, and
-uid/gid of the client). If the filesystem supports extended
-attributes and the kernel is sufficiently recent, it may also take
-into account access control lists (ACLs).
+uid/gid of the client).
+
+This mount option is activated implicitly if the filesystem enables
+ACL support during the initial feature negotiation when opening the
+device fd. In this case, the kernel performs both ACL and standard
+unix permission checking.
Filesystems that do not implement any permission checking should
generally add this option internally.