On May 22 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 22 05:47, Eric Blake wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > According to Bruno Haible on 5/21/2008 5:05 PM: > > | Hi Eric, > > | > > | I'm looking at ACL support for gnulib. Can you reproduce this with a > > | recent Cygwin? With a two-year-old Cygwin I got this: > > > > I reproduced the same symptoms with cygwin 1.5.25-11. > > > > | > > | $ touch foo > > | > > | $ getfacl foo > > | # file: foo > > | # owner: haible > > | # group: None > > | user::rw- > > | group::r-- > > | mask:rwx > > | other:r-- > > | > > | $ setfacl -m user:4:--x foo > > | setfacl: No error > > | > > | $ echo $? > > | 0 > > | > > | $ getfacl foo > > | # file: foo > > | # owner: haible > > | # group: None > > | user::rw- > > | group::r-- > > | mask:rwx > > | other:r-- > > | > > | The setfacl program > > | 1. complained about "No error", > > | 2. exited with exit code 0 although it did not execute the requested > > change. > > The problem is that the request can't be executed because we have no > mapping from uid 4 to a Windows SID. OTOH, the underlying Solaris > function acl() does not define any error code for a non-existant user > because it's not an error on Solaris. > > What error code do you want? EINVAL?
I applied a patch to CVS so this situation will return an "Invalid argument" error message now. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
