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Date: | Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:34:19 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof) |
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On Nov 6 01:58, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Andrew Schulman wrote: > > >> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being > > >> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls. > > >> > > >> When I use something like: > > >> find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile > > >> > > >> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on > > >> each file found. > > >> Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write > > >> C-code)? > > > > > > getfacl -R? > > > > I think you're guessing. There's no -R option in the "getfacl --help" > > output and it got rejected when I tried it just in case. > > Well, only partly. I was looking at getfacl on my Debian box at home, and it > does have an -R option for recursive retrieval. Strange that Cygwin doesn't > have it. Cygwin provides the Solaris ACL API, not the POSIX ACL API, and the getfacl/setfacl tools are designed after their Solaris counterparts which don't have the -R option. Anyway, if somebody feels inclined to add the -R option, I'll not refuse it again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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