Mail Archives: cygwin/2008/11/13/15:33:18
Barry Kelly wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>
>> Barry Kelly wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>
>>> I, for one, use Cygwin not primarily as a POSIX emulation layer, but as
>>> my main Windows user interface. IMHO in this situation, being posixly
>>> correct is a handicap that Cygwin could do without, at the user's
>>> choice.
>> So what about the "nontsec" option doesn't address your need then?
>
> It disables NT ACL manipulation via chmod, chown and chgrp.
Understood. But this is allowed under SUSV3. Cygwin has getfacl/setfacl
to manipulate ACLs directly, pretty much like cacls. But what you're
proposing, I believe, is permissible under SUSV3 too for chmod and friends.
It just comes down to SHTDI <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI>. It's
also fair to say that this is not a primary goal of Cygwin so it's unlikely
to be a priority with the Cygwin development team. If this is a
priority to you, then it will probably happen sooner if you jump in and
provide some patches. That's not an order (could I actually do that? ;-) )
I just wanted to properly set your expectations for this. :-)
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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