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Version 0.5.1

A bug-fix only release. Critical bugs (memory leaks and possible segmentation faults) have been fixed thanks to Dave Malcolm and his cpychecker tool. Additionally, some compatibility issues with Python 3.x have been fixed (str() methods returning bytes).

The documentation has been improved and changed from epydoc to sphinx; note however that the documentation is still auto-generated from the docstrings.

Project reorganisation: the project home page has been moved from SourceForge to GitHub.

Version 0.5

Added support for Python 3.x and improved support for Unicode filenames.

Version 0.4

License

Starting with this version, pylibacl is licensed under LGPL 2.1, Febryary 1999 or any later versions (see README 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.

Version 0.3

Linux support

Under Linux, implement more functions from libacl:

  • add ACL(mode=...), implementing acl_from_mode
  • add ACL().to_any_text, implementing acl_to_any_text
  • add ACL comparison, using acl_cmp
  • add ACL().check, which is a more descriptive function than validate

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