On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Mar 20 10:51, Martin Wege wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM Corinna Vinschen > > <corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 20 10:26, Martin Wege wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > Here is one wishlist item for Cygwin 3.7: > > > > > > > > Add the Solaris/UNIX acl(7) API, i.e acl(), facl(), aclcheck(), > > > > aclsort(). > > > > > > They exist in Cygwin since 2001. Just include <cygwin/acl.h> > > > > 😮😮😮 <--- face with open mouth > > Corinna, this is unbelievable!! > > Why are you hiding such a GEM?? > > I don't. It's documented for ages: > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-solaris.html > > > Seriously, why is this not in /usr/include/acl.h? > > There is no acl.h, there's only a sys/acl.h, and it contains > the POSIX.1e draft, as in Linux: > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-deprec.html > > But that reminds me, the doc should note that these are in cygwin/acl.h. > I'll add that. > > > Windows (mingw, Visual Studio, Borland C) does not have an acl.h > > header, and there is no /usr/include/acl.h on Linux, so please do a > > echo "#include <cygwin/acl.h>" >/usr/include/acl.h > > There's no precedent for cluttering the /usr/include namespace with > a generic acl.h, so, no, just include cygwin/acl.h.
How should applications/developers EVER find this? Quick tests shows 20+ applications with Solaris/UNIX ACL support (not POSIX depreciated draft ACLs), but none looks at /usr/include/cygwin/ Thanks, Martin
