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Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter
- From: "DePriest, Jason R." <jrdepriest at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:25 -0600
- Subject: Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter
- References: <loom.20100310T223730-987@post.gmane.org>
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Francis Litterio <> wrote:
> I notice that setfacl does not change the ACLs of a file when given a pathname
> starting with a drive letter (e.g., c:/temp/zzz), but it will work when given a
> UNIX-style pathname (e.g., /cygdrive/c/temp/zzz). ?Example below. ?Is this a
> known problem?
> --
> Fran
I'm pretty sure it is more of a feature than a problem.
The path of c:/temp/zzz doesn't have any meaning in POSIX. I suppose
we're lucky Cygwin supports that format for *any* actions.
-Jason
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