On Oct 27 10:53, Achim Gratz wrote: > Am 27.10.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >>That test is almost as bad as it can ever get. Given that enumerating all > >>AD accouts with mkpasswd takes about 2 hours and I'm doing something very > >>similar here, I'm not even surprised. I was more surprised to see the > >>server go so fast, but my guess is that it can use jumbo frames to talk to > >>the AD. > > > >Ok, so you don't seem to think this is a major drawback. > > I didn't say I would not like to see it run faster. Me neither. No wonder Windows largely skips showing effective permissions unless explicitely requested by the user. > But considering the > alternatives, working correctly all the times at the current speed seems to > cover my more typical uses a lot better. Ok. > >No worries. I'm mulling over the idea to release 2.3.0 this week > >without the new ACL handling code to get the latest fixes out of the > >door first and push this stuff into a 2.4.0 release in November. > > As long as you keep reminding us which snapshot has the new ACL handling > code, that is OK with me. I guess you should better use the latest test releases, which I'll always build with the new ACL handling. The snapshots are rather for quick&dirty testing the latest changes. > I will want to push out the snapshot in a week or > two and remove some of my workarounds for ACL corrections and/or noacl > mounted directories in order to see if these things are working now for > real. Cool. I'm looking forward to it. > >>>Given the above result, I'm wondering if we can afford using AuthZ at > >>>all. OTOH I don't see any other way to get the correct POSIX permissions > >>>from a non-Cygwin ACL :( > >> > >>If you really want fast but incorrect there's always the "noacl" mount > >>option. > > > >Right. OTOH, maybe we could enhance the "acl" mount option? > > > >"acl" -> "quickacl" -> "noacl"? > > Let's worry about that middle ground scenario when the ACL code has proven > itself. The danger here is that the edge cases that will make problems are > not easy to spot before you run into them Good point. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat