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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:15:07 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.17 changes ls -l output
Message-ID: <20021203151507.GA326007@WORLDNET>
References: <20021203123649 DOT GA1788 AT tishler DOT net>
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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 07:36:49AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> After upgrading to Cygwin 1.3.17, I noticed the following change in ls
> -l output:
> 
>     $ ls -ld /
>     drwxrwxr-x+  15 Administ Administ     4096 Oct 21 12:07 /
>               ^
> Was this change intentional?  Or, was it a side effect of the following?
> 
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:15:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > - Fix Sun acl functions.  (Corinna Vinschen, Pierre Humblet)

It is a side effect. 
The + indicates that the ACL contains more entries than necessary to
represent the Unix modes. 
In the case of directories Cygwin always inserts extra "default" entries 
in the ACL (visible with getfacl).
They control the permissions of files created by most Windows programs
and by Cygwin programs running with nontsec.
 
Pierre

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