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>>but: shouldn't there be a better conversion of NT-ACLs to unix-perms? >>perhaps a POSIX-ACL implementation? > > We have a Solaris compatible implementation of ACLs. Look into > /usr/include/cygwin/acl.h (which is called from sys/acl.h). This > is e. g. used to implement access(2) and the tools setfacl(3) and > getfacl(3). It's an official part of the Cygwin API since two > years or so. oops - shame on me - didn't know we had an ACL-implementation already. > I thought about implementing POSIX-ACLs once but the POSIX implementation > requires a lot of rework and I'm not sure if it's worth the effort since > POSIX IEEE Std. 1003.1e has been withdrawn. hmm - i just thought about the stat() call and why it could fail on a file - shouldn't this happen too on an ACL using UNIX-System in some cases? and how do these systems overcome this problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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