X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:04:26 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof) Message-ID: <20091106200426.GS26344@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <26222793.post@talk.nabble.com> <6fv6f5dgkrgi6baa9ghfjaqp7h9a3eq9pj@4ax.com> <4AF38812.4040309@gmail.com> <56i7f5lba7r55r24ug884qpehh66e2igpt@4ax.com> <20091106103419.GZ26344@calimero.vinschen.de> <26230850.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091106193944.GQ26344@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091106193944.GQ26344@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Nov 6 20:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 6 10:21, aputerguy wrote: > > > > Corinna Vinschen writes... > > > Cygwin provides the Solaris ACL API, not the POSIX ACL API, and the > > > getfacl/setfacl tools are designed after their Solaris counterparts > > > which don't have the -R option. > > > > Maybe this is a dumb or provocative question, but why does Cygwin provide > > the Solaris API rather than the POSIX one. Particularly, since Linux (and > > Fedora/RehHat in particular) seem to provide the POSIX one (or at least > > provide '-R' along with many other options)? > > History. I knew the Solaris ACL API much earlier than I learned about > the POSIX ACL API, [...] Oh and, btw., I added Solaris ACL support to Cygwin back in 2000, while Linux started to support POSIX ACLs first in kernel 2.6.1, back in 2003. Unfortunately they didn't follow Cygwin's lead back then ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple