Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 08:51:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin & NFTS In-Reply-To: <20040514093932.GC12030@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <40A490BF DOT 4090606 AT alcatel DOT it> <20040514093932 DOT GC12030 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 14 May 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 14 11:26, Danilo Turina wrote: > > I don't know if this information is related to your case, but notice > > that in Windows (I'm absolutely sure for W2K and WinXP) when you copy a > > file it takes the security attributes (the rights) of the folder where > > it has been copied, while when you move it it maintains its > > rights/security attributes doesn't change. > > On Cygwin it depends on whether "ntsec" is set or not. If ntsec is > switched off, the default Windows rules apply, while with ntsec on, > Cygwin sets the permissions in a POSIXy way. However, copying a file > means to create a new file. Copying over the permissions is then a > responsibility of the application (cp(1) in this very case). If the > application doesn't have ACL support, then only the POSIX standard > permissions (user, group, other) are transferred. > > Corinna FWIW, one can always do "getfacl oldfile | setfacl -f - newfile". I think this be ripe for the FAQ or the UG -- it crops up from time to time. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/