Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <002001c2d22d$4a454490$78d96f83@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Brian Ford" Cc: References: Subject: Re: multi-user file permission problems Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:25:47 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Brian Ford wrote: >>> Why are shells and such confused by this, though? >> >> Well, that scan PATH, looking for executables.... and if file they >> see isn't executable, they ignore it. >> > Isn't that a bug if they don't use the ACL's for OS's that have 'em? Lack-of-feature is perhaps a better way to put it. And in the shells, not in Cygwin, in any case. ACLs aren't exactly common, or particularly standardized. I believe Cygwin tries to emulate Solaris. On Linux, ACLs require a non-standard kernel patch. Therefore, unrealistic to expect much support for ACLs outside specific ACL-handling tools. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/