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From: Mike Schmidt <mike AT intello DOT com>
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Excellent. Thank you vey much. I have found and solved to problem I had
with acls on a file.

Mike

Dave Korn wrote:
> Mike Schmidt wrote:
>   
>> I have noticed that in many cases when listing files with ls there is a
>> + at the end of the permissions. What does this mean? It seems to be
>> related to some problems I am having with file access from windows
>> programs after the files have been modified by emacs in a cygwin session.
>>
>> example:
>>
>> -rwx------+ 1 user1           Aucun  3063892 Jan 20  2009 agent.exe
>> -rwx------  1 user1           Aucun      821 Aug 13 02:16 config.xml
>> -rwx------+ 1 user1           Aucun      569 Jan 20  2009 config.xml~
>>     
>
>   It means that there are extra permissions set on the file, in the windows
> ACL, that cannot meaningfully be expressed in terms of user/group/other
> read/write/execute.  You can take a look at the file's properties in windows
> explorer to see what they are, or use the 'cacls' (windows native) or
> 'getfacl' (cygwin) command-line utilities to examine them.
>
>     cheers,
>       DaveK
>
>
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