8.7 Conformance
8.7.1 A conforming requester #
Starting. Starts the editor as its own child with the editor's standard input and output connected to it, and sends the request as the first line (§8.3).
The request. Sends every required member, a self-relative
descriptor in padded base64, the general rights from the most to the
least, and the generic mapping its kind of object actually uses. On a
container, says in object.children what it holds. Says in can only
what it can in fact change, having asked the system. Says in read
which components it sent where that is not everything sd has, as a
SACL holding only the label (§8.4).
Applying. Answers every apply with exactly one line, in order.
Applies the components parts names and no others, and the label as a
label, keeping the rest of the SACL. Answers applied only when all of
them were, and otherwise failed, with a reason for the person (§8.5).
Pushing into what is inside. Says can.propagate only on a
container it can walk. Asked to, after applying, re-propagates
everything inside as PCDS §5.6 sets out, for the lists parts names:
parents first, protected lists left, nothing changed but those lists, no
link followed, past an item it cannot change. Stops after the item in
hand on stop or end-of-file, and answers applied with how many were
done, which could not be and why, and whether it was stopped (§8.5).
Lines. Ignores a line type and a member it does not recognise (§8.3). Infers nothing from the editor's exit status or standard error (§8.3).
8.7.2 A conforming editor #
Starting. Shows no dialog for a request it cannot use, and ends (§8.4).
Showing. Shows a descriptor without a DACL as granting everyone
everything, never as an empty list. Shows what it cannot express in the
general rights as a whole, and keeps such entries as it found them.
Gives the entries it makes on a container the inheritance flags of what
the container holds. Shows a DACL the requester cannot change without
offering to change it. Takes a SACL for the whole SACL only where
read says it is (§8.4).
Applying. Sends an apply only when the person asks, with the
whole descriptor and the components that changed, never dacl,
owner, group, sacl or label it was not told it could, never
sacl and label together, and never while one is unanswered.
Shows a failed answer's reason and stays (§8.5). Sends propagate
only to a requester that said can.propagate, and only where the person
chose it (§8.5).
Changing nothing. Holds no handle to the object and changes nothing itself (§8.1, §8.6).
Ending. Ends when the person closes or cancels, after an applied
answer to an apply-and-close, and promptly on end-of-file on its
standard input, without asking the person anything. SHOULD also end
when its parent exits (§8.3).