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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: setfacl on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 18:36:09 +0200
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > What error code do you want?  EINVAL?

EINVAL sounds right, yes. The Solaris manual page [1] also mentions it:

  "EINVAL
    ... the cmd argument is SETACL or ACE_SETACL and the ACL specified in
    aclbufp is not valid."

> I applied a patch to CVS so this situation will return an "Invalid argument"
> error message now.

Thanks. Will the setfacl program then exit with non-zero exit code (since it
could not set the requested ACL)?

Bruno


[1] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5167/acl-2?l=en&a=view


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