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On Dec 1 18:03, Steven Hartland wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Corinna Vinschen" > > >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". > > Ok that begs the questions:- > 1. What was the reasoning behind this change? Win32 path -> No POSIX path -> no POSIX permissions. There was a thread on this list about this very problem a couple of months ago. It was generally agreed that handling Win32 paths this way consistently is a good thing. > 2. Surely when performing changes on permissions with a mount mode of > noacl it should be a fatal error? No. "noacl" means that permissions are faked. > #2 I think is imperative as to leave the user thinking all is well > is going to lead to real confusion, just like it did here, especially > as this worked just fine in 1.5. > > I know the warning is there but at no point does it mention the fact > it totally breaks anything that tries to manipulate permissions. It's easy. If you want POSIX permssion handling, stick to the POSIX world. 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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