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Corinna Vinschen:
> The problem is this.  How long do you want `ls -l' take?  Checking
> permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the
> user's token.  The access check can be improved and the permissions
> more correctly shown for the current user, but for any file and any
> user account, it'd be a lot of time-consuming effort.

I expect that improving the emulation for just the "current user" would be useful.
That is an *extremely* common situation.

--- David A. Wheeler

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