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From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:16:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:

> 
>   Because it has to emulate unix perms by relating uid/gid to windows RIDs,
which are owned, allocated and
> controlled by the system, and not under the arbitrary choice of the user, so
the semantics wouldn't be the
> same even if we did create ACLs with unrecognised SIDs on them.
> 
Another question, why isn't possible to mount the partition with a special flag
(like managed mode), where the permision are stored in a database instead of
trying to map them on windows perms.

This mode will do something like what does fakeroot on Linux.


Matthieu


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