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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 
> That's by design.  When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths,
> you will get Win32 default permission handling.  Or, in other words,
> for all DOS paths the mount mode is "noacl".

  Cheers, I was just off looking that up.  It's obviously what's happening for
perl too.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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