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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 20:47:23 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.3.17 changes ls -l output
In-reply-to: <000801c2a910$7e9378c0$7300a8c0@bubbalouey>
To: Tim and Kathy Andvaag <andvaag AT sasktel DOT net>
Cc: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Tim,

Please post instead of sending private email.

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:46:22AM -0600, Tim and Kathy Andvaag wrote:
> Note that is appears to be also a problem for client (i.e internet
> explorer) ftp access as the trailing + output by ls (withing ftpd)
> seems to confuse the ftp client.
>  
> Tim
> 
> Cygwin 1.3.17 changes ls -l output
> 
>   * From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
>   * To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
>   * Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 07:36:49 -0500
>   * Subject: Cygwin 1.3.17 changes ls -l output
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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 /
>               ^
>               *
> 
> If I temporarily downgrade to Cygwin 1.3.16, ls -l outputs the
> following:
> 
>     $ ls -ld /
>     drwxrwxr-x   15 Administ Administ     4096 Oct 21 12:07 /
> 
> I found the following in ls's info:
> 
>     `-l'
>     `--format=long'
>     `--format=verbose'
>          ...
>          Following the permission bits is a single character that
>          specifies whether an alternate access method applies to the
>          file.  When that character is a space, there is no alternate
>          access method.  When it is a printing character (e.g., `+'),
>          then there is such a method.
> 
> 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)

Jason

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