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Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or    chunk  thereof)
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Corinna Vinschen writes...
> Cygwin provides the Solaris ACL API, not the POSIX ACL API, and the
> getfacl/setfacl tools are designed after their Solaris counterparts
> which don't have the -R option.

Maybe this is a dumb or provocative question, but why does Cygwin provide
the Solaris API rather than the POSIX one. Particularly, since Linux (and
Fedora/RehHat in particular) seem to provide the POSIX one (or at least
provide '-R' along with many other options)?
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