Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/28/08:56:15
On Jan 28 06:20, Eric Blake wrote:
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> Several places in the coreutils testsuite died because new directories in
> cygwin have 7 ACL designations (user, group, other, mask, default user,
That's a negligible problem of the coreutils testsuite.
> Could this be a bug in cygwin/sec_acl.cc's getacl() for creating directory
> default ACLs that are no different from the owner's permissions when
> parsing the Windows permissions? Or is it really valid behavior that all
> cygwin directories start life with default ACL entries, in which case
> either the coreutils testsuite needs to account for the '+' in the mode
> (or else patch `ls' to treat 7 ACL entries on directories, with the 3
> default entries matching the corresponding directory owner permissions, as
> normal and not extended access)?
That happens in alloc_sd(). The idea is to have a SD which allows to
inherit the POSIX-like permissions to newly created files and subdirs
in the directory.
Corinna
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