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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: win dirs don't handle lack of inherited rule(?): getfacl + tar dir Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb9bf5e7-5804-7dac-80d3-a58db02b4a26@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190313113445.GX3785@calimero.vinschen.de>

On 2019-03-13 05:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Per POSIX, the normal acl (ACL_TYPE_ACCESS) and the inheritance acl
> (ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT) are two separate lists.  So we have the
> ACL_TYPE_ACCESS with 9 entries and the ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT with 0 entries.
> 
> And while empty ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT acls are valid per POSIX, the Cygwin
> function creating the text representation for an acl didn't allow
> empty acls.
> 
> I pushed a patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to
> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

In my experience no DACLs results in no POSIX permissions for Cygwin programs,
although Explorer and some other Windows programs can see and read them.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-15 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-08  3:36 L A Walsh
2019-03-08 12:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-10 10:48   ` L A Walsh
2019-03-10 11:20     ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-10 13:35     ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-10 16:38       ` L A Walsh
2019-03-10 22:50         ` Andrey Repin
2019-03-10 23:15           ` L A Walsh
2019-03-10 14:09     ` Brian Inglis
2019-03-12 15:45       ` L A Walsh
2019-03-12 16:36         ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-13  2:22           ` L A Walsh
2019-03-13  9:19             ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-13  9:32               ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-13 11:34                 ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-15  2:46                   ` L A Walsh
2019-03-15  9:17                     ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-15 12:25                   ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2019-03-15 13:34                     ` Corinna Vinschen
2019-03-15 14:46                       ` L A Walsh
2019-03-15 14:52                         ` Corinna Vinschen

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