Corinna Vinschen writes: > 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 only token that's relevant for the ACL mapping w.r.t. POSIX semantics is that of the current user and Cygwin should already have that I think. Plus the extra work only needs to be done when the file is owned by that user and/or the egid is identical to the group of said file. In all other cases the normal ACL processing should actually yield the same result as mandated by POSIX. > 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'd say that Cygwin already does all of that, except for this special handling of the file owner and group. It already has to check who the owner and group is, so that information is also there. I'm not sure how much more work it is to graft the permissions. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptation for Waldorf microQ V2.22R2: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSDada -- 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
