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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: A notion about saving and restoring Windows file security info
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On Jan  7 18:40, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > No settings in that case.  *Iff* we do that, we should provide the native
> > ACLs in a consistent manner.
> 
> I have a small suggestion. Have you tried too look into existing
> implementations? Samba uses xattrs to store extra information for much the
> same purpose.
> See f.e. https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_acl_xattr.8.html

Thanks!


Corinna

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