plus ("+") sign in file perms

[Joel Goguen]

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Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍ wrote:
> I've seen this mostly on hardy (coreutils ver 6.10)
> 
> $ ls -l /dev |egrep "\+"
> crw-rw----+ 1 root   audio    14,  12 2008-12-26 19:15 adsp
> crw-rw----+ 1 root   audio    14,   4 2008-12-26 19:15 audio
> crw-rw----+ 1 root   audio    14,   3 2008-12-26 19:15 dsp
> crw-rw----+ 1 root   audio    14,   0 2008-12-26 19:15 mixer
> brw-rw----+ 1 root   cdrom    11,   0 2008-12-26 19:15 scd0
> crw-rw----+ 1 root   audio    14,   1 2008-12-26 19:15 sequencer
> crw-rw----+ 1 root   audio    14,   8 2008-12-26 19:15 sequencer2
> 
> 
> What does the "+" sign at the end of the 1st field, eg: crw-rw----+  denote?
> 
> thx.
> 
The + means the file (or device, or directory...) has ACL permissions
set.  You can view these with 'getfacl /path/to/file', like so:

getfacl /dev/dsp


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