Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <3D47E74C.2060908@upb.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:34:04 +0200
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <skoehler AT upb DOT de>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
X-Accept-Language: de, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with CPAN
References: <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A84104355 AT dailymail DOT cfs DOT ac DOT uk> <31CB870AD5AA384BB5419025DD9F7A8410435A AT dailymail DOT cfs DOT ac DOT uk> <20020731114049 DOT D3921 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <MPG DOT 17b1c9bfc73271e4989694 AT news DOT gmane DOT org> <3D47BC77 DOT 9090405 AT upb DOT de> <20020731151259 DOT K3921 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Jul 2002 13:32:11.0056 (UTC) FILETIME=[AC86CB00:01C23896]

>>but: shouldn't there be a better conversion of NT-ACLs to unix-perms?
>>perhaps a POSIX-ACL implementation?
> 
> We have a Solaris compatible implementation of ACLs.  Look into
> /usr/include/cygwin/acl.h (which is called from sys/acl.h).  This
> is e. g. used to implement access(2) and the tools setfacl(3) and
> getfacl(3).  It's an official part of the Cygwin API since two
> years or so.

oops - shame on me - didn't know we had an ACL-implementation already.

> I thought about implementing POSIX-ACLs once but the POSIX implementation
> requires a lot of rework and I'm not sure if it's worth the effort since
> POSIX IEEE Std. 1003.1e has been withdrawn.

hmm - i just thought about the stat() call and why it could fail on a 
file - shouldn't this happen too on an ACL using UNIX-System in some 
cases? and how do these systems overcome this problem?


--
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/