Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/08/19/03:40:39
On Aug 18 20:31, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen sent the following at Wednesday, August 18, 2010 4:43 AM
> >
> >That usually just means you don't have admin privs.
>
> For the archive: That is indeed the case.
>
> >Here's the actual problem:
> > cygdrive prefix / system binary,noacl,posix=0,auto
> >
> >The cygdrive prefix is set to the mount option "noacl". So the
> >output from getfacl or ls or stat for this directory shows just fake
> >permissions based on the DOS R/O flag.
> >
> >You're not an admin, so you're not allowed to write to this directory,
> >see the cacls output. However, since the cygdrive prefix is mounted
> >with "noacl", Cygwin tools just don't know it.
>
> With "acl", I had been getting annoying error messages about copying
> permissions with "cp -p" on some network drives, so I switched
> everything to "noacl". I'll try switching back to "acl", testing for
> error messages, and going to "noacl" only on drives that seem to have
> problems.
Oh, I didn't say you have to go back to "acl". I was just pointing out
the fact.
The fact that "noacl" is perfectly valid is something we package
maintainers have to keep in mind when creating postinstall scripts.
Same for case-sensitivity. *make mental note*
Corinna
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