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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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On Nov  6 20:39, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Nov  6 10:21, aputerguy wrote:
> > 
> > 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)?
> 
> History.  I knew the Solaris ACL API much earlier than I learned about
> the POSIX ACL API, [...]

Oh and, btw., I added Solaris ACL support to Cygwin back in 2000, while
Linux started to support POSIX ACLs first in kernel 2.6.1, back in 2003.
Unfortunately they didn't follow Cygwin's lead back then ;)


Corinna

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