X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46F03658.B6BFFABA@dessent.net> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:34:32 -0700 From: Brian Dessent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: what does the plus sign in a ls -l listing indicate? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Jerome Fong wrote: > Sorry, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. Using the ls -la > command, I get a listing of the files in my directory. However, I have > files with a "+" sign after their permissions. What does this mean? It > doesn't seem to show up in ls examples on the web. The ls documentation explains it as: Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies whether an alternate access method such as an access control list applies to the file. When the character following the file mode bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is a printing character, then there is such a method. In the context of Cygwin this means the files have ACLs that do not map exactly to the POSIX ugo/rwx modes. This is typical of files created by native/non-Cygwin apps as they tend to not specify any particular permissions to the filesystem and instead just inherit the default from the directory. You can use getfacl/setfacl, cacls/xcacls, etc. to view them. Brian -- 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/