Re: Issues with ACL settings after updating to the latest cygwin.dll

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>]

Greetings, xnor!

>>Which warning do you mean here?
> The "permissions out of order" one. This was not the case before, at 
> least not on my installation, so I don't see how this can be called 
> normal.

It is normal and was normal for at least seventeen years.

>>Come on, be fair.  The new ACL handling started out early 2015, got a
>>break when I realized that it doesn't work as is, and then got a new
>>test phase starting back in September.  Except for minor bugs it seemed
>>to work rather well.  Nobody reported this effect in all the 4 months 
>>of
>>test period.  You don't actually think I wouldn't have fixed it prior
>>to the release if I had known about it, do you?
> 2.4.0-1 was released ~3 weeks ago. I had actually upgraded a few days 
> earlier to a TEST version and noticed that a cygwin downloaded exe 
> couldn't be executed but assumed the exe was corrupt and didn't 
> investigate...
> Then a few days ago the same thing happened again. Now I'm here.

> Anyway, clearly most users are just that: users, and not testers that 
> will install and test TEST versions.

I hope this is not a complaint? You are supposed to know what you are doing,
when installing test versions.

>>They are not supposed to be modifiable in Explorer.  If you want to
>>change permissions on a Cygwin ACL, use chmod or setfacl.
> Is this a joke?

It is a statement of the matter.

>>
>>>  Here is the output from icacls /saveacl for some file:
>>>  
>>>D:P(D;;RPWPDTRC;;;S-1-0-0)(A;;0x1f019f;;;S-1-5-21-559282050-488988736-2019639472-1001)(D;;WP;;;AU)(D;;WP;;;SY)(D;;WP;;;BA)(D;;WP;;;BU)(A;;FR;;;S-1-5-21-559282050-488988736-2019639472-513)(A;;0x1201bf;;;AU)(A;;0x1201bf;;;SY)(A;;0x1201bf;;;BA)(A;;0x1200a9;;;BU)(A;;FR;;;WD)
>>Doh, I'm sorry, but I can't read this format very well.  Can you please
>>again send the standard icacls output as well as the output from 
>>getfacl
>>of the parent dir and the created file?  I'd like to have this problem
>>fixed, but I need your help.  As I said, it works fine for me and 
>>without
>>being able to reproduce I'm somewhat at a loss.
> You can import this by putting it in a textfile and using icacls 
> testfile /restore acl.txt.
> As I've said before, my Windows is German. icacls output will be 
> localized. Do you really want that?

You'd be surprized… But the actual answer is "yes".

> What I posted is the only portable way to share ACLs.

You weren't asked for "portable".

P.S.
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-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 23:31:57

Sorry for my terrible english...