*released Sat, 28 Jun 2008*
License
Starting with this version, pylibacl is licensed under LGPL 2.1,
Febryary 1999 or any later versions (see README.rst and COPYING).
Linux support
A few more Linux-specific functions:
- add the ACL.equiv_mode() method, which will return the equivalent
octal mode if this is a basic ACL and raise an IOError exception
otherwise
- add the acl_extended(...) function, which will check if an fd or path
has an extended ACL
FreeBSD support
FreeBSD 7.x will have almost all the acl manipulation functions that
Linux has, with the exception of __getstate__/__setstate__. As a
workaround, use the str() and ACL(text=...) methods to pass around
textual representations.
Interface
At module level there are now a few constants exported for easy-checking
at runtime what features have been compiled in:
- `HAS_ACL_FROM_MODE`, denoting whether the ACL constructor supports
the `mode=0xxx` parameter
- `HAS_ACL_CHECK`, denoting whether ACL instances support the
`check()` method
- `HAS_ACL_ENTRY`, denoting whether ACL manipulation is possible and
the Entry and Permset classes are available
- `HAS_EXTENEDED_CHECK`, denoting whether the `acl_extended()`
function is supported
- `HAS_EQUIV_MODE`, denoting whether ACL instances support the
`equiv_mode()` method
Internals
Many functions have now unittests, which is a good thing.