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Subject: Re: setfacl on Cygwin
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On May 22 05:47, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Bruno Haible on 5/21/2008 5:05 PM:
> | Hi Eric,
> |
> | I'm looking at ACL support for gnulib. Can you reproduce this with a
> | recent Cygwin? With a two-year-old Cygwin I got this:
>
> I reproduced the same symptoms with cygwin 1.5.25-11.
>
> |
> | $ touch foo
> |
> | $ getfacl foo
> | # file: foo
> | # owner: haible
> | # group: None
> | user::rw-
> | group::r--
> | mask:rwx
> | other:r--
> |
> | $ setfacl -m user:4:--x foo
> | setfacl: No error
> |
> | $ echo $?
> | 0
> |
> | $ getfacl foo
> | # file: foo
> | # owner: haible
> | # group: None
> | user::rw-
> | group::r--
> | mask:rwx
> | other:r--
> |
> | The setfacl program
> |   1. complained about "No error",
> |   2. exited with exit code 0 although it did not execute the requested
> change.

The problem is that the request can't be executed because we have no
mapping from uid 4 to a Windows SID.  OTOH, the underlying Solaris
function acl() does not define any error code for a non-existant user
because it's not an error on Solaris. 

What error code do you want?  EINVAL?


Corinna

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