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On 03/10/2010 03:42 PM, Francis Litterio wrote: > This gets stranger. Watch this: > > $ /bin/ls -l /cygdrive/c/temp/xyz > -rwx------+ 1 littef Domain Users 6714 Mar 1 15:07 /cygdrive/c/temp/xyz > $ /bin/ls -l c:/temp/xyz > -rw-r--r-- 1 littef Domain Users 6714 Mar 1 15:07 c:/temp/xyz > > Notice the '+' indicating additional ACLs on the file when a UNIX pathname is > used, but the '+' is missing when a drive-letter is used. This also did not > used to happen. It is as if the presence of drive letters is suppressing > awareness of ACLs within the Cygwin layer. > > Anyone know if this was this done on purpose? Yes, this is on purpose. Use of a drive letter says that you DON'T want POSIX path processing, therefore, you are also giving up ACL processing. Moral of the story - don't expect drive letters to do what you want. Use POSIX paths. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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