rsync - Jan 2012 - [Bug 8690] New: Simple ACLs abort with "Unsupported attribute value (124)"

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8690

           Summary: Simple ACLs abort with "Unsupported attribute value
                    (124)"
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.0.7
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: AIX
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: ericbambach1 at discover.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


Rsync seems unable to copy even the most simple ACL on AIX and throws the error
"Unsupported attribute value (124)"

$ /opt/freeware/bin/rsync -Aa /tmp/rtest/a/ /tmp/rtest/b/
rsync: change_sacl_perms: sys_acl_get_tag_type(): Unsupported attribute 
value (124)

$ /opt/freeware/bin/rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, no xattrs, no iconv, no symtimes


/tmp/rtest$ aclget ./a/file
*
* ACL_type   AIXC
*
attributes:
base permissions
    owner(ebambach):  rw-
    group(staff):  r--
    others:  r--
extended permissions
    enabled
    permit   rwx     u:myuser
/tmp/rtest$ aclget ./b/file
*
* ACL_type   AIXC
*
attributes:
base permissions
    owner(ebambach):  rw-
    group(staff):  r--
    others:  r--
extended permissions
    disabled


/tmp/rtest$ find . -ls
49166    1 drwxr-xr-x  4 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 .
49167    1 drwxr-xr-x  2 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 ./a
49169    0 -rw-r--r--  1 ebambach   staff            0 Nov 10 16:11 
./a/file
49168    1 drwxr-xr-x  2 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 ./b
49170    0 -rw-r--r--  1 ebambach   staff            0 Nov 10 16:11 
./b/file

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--- Comment #1 from Bj?rn Jacke <bjacke at samba.org> ---
AIXC type ACLs are incompatible with other ACLs like thised used on Linux. The
only ACLs which are standardized are actually NFS4 ACLs. Rsync doesn't
really
support those unfortunately, yet. Linux also lacks support for NFS4 ACLs.

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