X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <491C8DF5.2070301@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:28:37 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080723 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin Everyone group permissions and Vista "shared files" (*not* shared folders) References: <5e4cc4153gf115hcpi4ilk2s787klg6sra@4ax.com> <20080929165252.GC11053@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080930163346.GK11053@calimero.vinschen.de> <20415300.post@talk.nabble.com> <20081110115230.GA2884@calimero.vinschen.de> <7j5ih4pea29aj7pnmn186b8uitoeboetkb@4ax.com> <4919B55D.10606@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Barry Kelly wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >> Barry Kelly wrote: >>> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> I, for one, use Cygwin not primarily as a POSIX emulation layer, but as >>> my main Windows user interface. IMHO in this situation, being posixly >>> correct is a handicap that Cygwin could do without, at the user's >>> choice. >> So what about the "nontsec" option doesn't address your need then? > > It disables NT ACL manipulation via chmod, chown and chgrp. Understood. But this is allowed under SUSV3. Cygwin has getfacl/setfacl to manipulate ACLs directly, pretty much like cacls. But what you're proposing, I believe, is permissible under SUSV3 too for chmod and friends. It just comes down to SHTDI . It's also fair to say that this is not a primary goal of Cygwin so it's unlikely to be a priority with the Cygwin development team. If this is a priority to you, then it will probably happen sooner if you jump in and provide some patches. That's not an order (could I actually do that? ;-) ) I just wanted to properly set your expectations for this. :-) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/