Corinna Vinschen: > The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking > permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the > user's token. The access check can be improved and the permissions > more correctly shown for the current user, but for any file and any > user account, it'd be a lot of time-consuming effort.
I expect that improving the emulation for just the "current user" would be useful. That is an *extremely* common situation. --- David A. Wheeler -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
