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Subject: Re: 1.7.1-1 - forward slash UNC names to use 'noacl'
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On Jan 21 11:25, na na wrote:
> 
> Listing the contents of a directory on our file server (a Samba share) by t=
> he following command:
>  
> =A0=A0 $ ls -l
>  
> or explicitly
>  
> =A0=A0 $ ls -l ./
>  
> the output is
>  
> =A0=A0 ----------+ 1 ???????? <group> 600 2009-09-09 11:12 README.txt
> =A0=A0 d---------+ 1 ???????? <group>=A0=A0 0 2009-09-09 11:03 conf
>  
> whereas the following command:
>  
> =A0=A0 $ ls -l .\\
>  
> outputs
>  
> =A0=A0 -rw-r--r-- 1 <user> <group> 600 2009-09-09 11:12 README.txt
> =A0=A0 drwxr-xr-x 1 <user> <group>=A0=A0 0 2009-09-09 11:03 conf
>  
> I presume this behaviour has something to do with this point:
>  
>    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html:
>  
>    - Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no =
> POSIX
>      permission=2C as if they are mounted with noacl=2Cposix=3D0 mo=
> unt flags.
>  
> My goal is to specify 'noacl' for forward slash UNC paths in order to displ=
> ay file permissions in the same way as they are displayed with backslash UN=
> C paths.
>  
> Is there any way to do this without mounting all file servers in question (=
> we have many) with the 'noacl' option?

No, there's no way to do that.  I played a bit with this and it might
be more feasible to treat all UNC paths as noacl,posix=0.  I added this
problem to my TODO list.


Corinna

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