It seems there's no posix acl support in Cygwin, as far as I could see. The libraries are here if anyone wants to try porting them to Win32 acls:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/latest/cmd_tars/acl-2.2.15.src.tar.gz ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/latest/cmd_tars/attr-2.4.8.src.tar.gz -- Rafael >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:12 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Rsync, Cygwin and ACL support > > > > > >My life would be much easier if I could use Rsync on Cygwin, to go from >windows to linux, and preserve POSIX acls along the way. Rsync does not >support this, without a patch. This patch works fine in linux, and applies >correctly in Cygwin, but I am unable to get Cygwin past the ./configure >stage. > >I have applied the patch to the rsync source, and run ./configure >--with-acl-support=yes. >There is a failure during configure that is killing acl support ---> > >Checking whether to support ACLS... checking for acl_get_file in -lacl... >no >checking for ACL support... no > >I suppose my question for the list is, is the POSIX acl support in Cygwin >complete enough that this should work, or am I wasting my time? If anyone >knows a way around this, I would be most appreciative. > >Alex Laslavic >Havertys Tech Services -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
