Hi Christian, On Dec 16 12:10, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Dec 15 19:46, Christian Franke wrote: > > BTW: Are there any long term plans to actually implement the acl "mask" ? > > Should be possible by mapping the "mask" restrictions to deny acl > > entries for each named entry: > > There are no such plans, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't take patches > which implement this. In fact I would be *very* happy to get patches > which improve ACL handling, and I'm not finicky in terms of the type > of enhancement. Various ideas come to mind: > > - Fix acl(2) by handling deny ACEs at all. > > - Implement the POSIX 1003.1e functions (maybe simply in terms of > the existing Solaris API). > > - Add missing Solaris ACL functions (acl_get, facl_get, acl_set, facl_set, > acl_fromtext, acl_totext, acl_free, acl_strip, acl_trivial). > > - Add Solaris NFSv4 ACLs, which, coincidentally, are almost equivalent > to Windows ACLs. This would work nicely for NTFS ACLs, of course. > See http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2252/acl-5?l=en&a=view > > - Last but not least: Actually handle "mask".
did you have any further look into any of these points? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
