From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Extended Attributes and File Permissions
24 Mar 1998 07:57:39 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD570D.88830080.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "'Geoffrey Noer'" <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: "cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Geoffrey Noer wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Probably what we should do is:
>
> 1) Use shortcuts as symlinks.  I think that would allow us to always
> avoid having to read files on stat.

1. Not all files are checked for symlink now, "system" file attribute 
checked first.
2. Nt 3.51 (still widely used, btw) has no IShellLink API.
3. The format of .lnk file is undocumented.
4. I see the best solution in UWIN - it uses its own symlinks (almost 
identical to cygwin's symlinks :-) but treats .lnk files as symlinks too.

>
> 2) Use ACLs under NT, fall back to pre-NTEA methods for '95

NTEA doesn't work on 95 - w95 doesn't suppots EAs.

>
> 3) Check out Win 98 to see if it has a security model.
>

You're optimist :-) No, it has not.

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