Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/30/14:25:51
Larry Hall wrote:
> At 04:03 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:
[SNIP]
>>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...
>
> Traditional UNIX permissions have always been represented by "drwxrwxrwx"
> permission displays (yes, I know "s" and "t" are possible options in some
> of the above locations). ACLs are just different kinds of permissions that
> don't obviously map into the traditional UNIX permissions. UNIX permissions
> do not imply or require the use of ACLs so using a '+' for all files would
> misleading. Using '+' as you mentioned for all files displayed by Cygwin's
> 'ls' would actually make it less transparent, not more.
That's not what I meant. My point was that since all files (natively)
have ACLs, tt makes sense to assume that a locked file has an ACL.
>>2. Probability. If the file is busy there's good chance that the file
>>has an ACL.
>
> Actually no. It just means the file is locked. As Corinna pointed out,
> there is no distinction in Windows between the meta data and the file.
> If the file is locked, the meta data is too and vice versa. So a locked
> file tells you nothing about the existence of ACLs on this file.
See my other post in this thread.
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/Lasse
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