Subject: Re: Problems with CPAN
From: Sven Köhler <[email-masked]>
To: Chris Game <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:31:19 +0200
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin

>>Nooooo.  It's way easier.  If an application uses stat() and
>>checks the uid against the posix permission bits, it fails
>>since your uid is definitely not the uid of the admins group.
>>
>><snip rest of highly techie explanation>
> 
> In what sense are you using the phrase 'way easier' in the first 
> sentence? The rest of your stuff goes right over the head of this 
> part of the target audience!

in fact is was easier:
- the perl script checked the permission - what went wrong since NT ACLs 
are much more complicated than unix RWX-stuff
- bash does not use any test - it just opens/runs the file to check if 
it has access.

but: shouldn't there be a better conversion of NT-ACLs to unix-perms?
perhaps a POSIX-ACL implementation?

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