Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/28/16:05:38
Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 6/28/2005 2:34 AM:
>
>>However, IMHO, ls should be changed to just print no error message,
>>if file_has_acl() returns -1 and errno is set to EBUSY, and the file
>>should simply be treated as a file with no ACL. That's the least
>>intrusive way, IMHO.
>
> Certainly less intrusive, but also potentially misleading. The point of a
> new character is to make it obvious that ls was unable to determine if
> there are ACLs, rather than that the file has no alternate access.
IMO, it should be the other way around, i.e. no error but a '+' to
signify an ACL, for two reasons:
1. Transperency. Since the UNIX permissions are emulated, one could
argue that all files should have the '+' displayed...
2. Probability. If the file is busy there's good chance that the file
has an ACL.
I view the '+' as a reminder that "there's more to it than what is
shown" and I think that would be right thing to convey for busy files.
I think this behaviour would be the least surprising...
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/Lasse
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