Re: handling invalid user/groups (was incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.)

2018-09-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 9/5/2018 1:03 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: No, I deliberately removed it from the released version to tease you. Meanie!!! :-) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsub

Re: handling invalid user/groups (was incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.)

2018-09-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, L A Walsh! > p.s. -- some "FYI" stuff about your email: > when i respond to one of your emails, I get two (2) > "To:" entries -- both to cygwin@cygwin.com. > I think it might be because the emails from you contain > two 'Mail-Followup-To:' lines -- see b

Re: handling invalid user/groups (was incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.)

2018-09-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Sep 4 13:08, L A Walsh wrote: > On 8/27/2018 10:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On 8/27/2018 3:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > The only sane way to handle unknown SIDs in file ACLs is to ignore them > > entirely. The result will be that you never see them in getfacl, nor > > will they b

Re: handling invalid user/groups (was incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.)

2018-09-04 Thread L A Walsh
On 8/27/2018 10:26 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On 8/27/2018 3:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: The only sane way to handle unknown SIDs in file ACLs is to ignore them entirely. The result will be that you never see them in getfacl, nor will they be stored by tar or rsync. They are just not there

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 12:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 27 12:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 27 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Aug 26 20:32, L A Walsh wrote: > > > > On 8/23/2018 1:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > No, that's a wrong assumption. Think about it. The A

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 12:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 27 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 26 20:32, L A Walsh wrote: > > > On 8/23/2018 1:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > ... > > > > No, that's a wrong assumption. Think about it. The ACL given to > > > > acl_to_text is the binary form, s

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 27 11:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 26 20:32, L A Walsh wrote: > > On 8/23/2018 1:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > ... > > > No, that's a wrong assumption. Think about it. The ACL given to > > > acl_to_text is the binary form, so it doesn't contain user or group > > > names, only

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 26 20:32, L A Walsh wrote: > On 8/23/2018 1:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > ... > > No, that's a wrong assumption. Think about it. The ACL given to > > acl_to_text is the binary form, so it doesn't contain user or group > > names, only uids and gids. The usernames are only generated in t

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-26 Thread L A Walsh
On 8/23/2018 1:11 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: ... No, that's a wrong assumption. Think about it. The ACL given to acl_to_text is the binary form, so it doesn't contain user or group names, only uids and gids. The usernames are only generated in the output. --- Rats. Of course, you're right.

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 22 22:54, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/22/2018 6:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > > Ran in to this trying to use tar to store acls and xattrs: > > > >>  tar caf lawbins.tar scripts scripts- bin > > tar: miner.js: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument > > tar: run-crons.sys: Warning: Cannot ac

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-23 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 22 15:36, L A Walsh wrote: > Ran in to this trying to use tar to store acls and xattrs: > > > tar caf lawbins.tar scripts scripts- bin > tar: miner.js: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument > tar: run-crons.sys: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument > tar: smallprof.out: Wa

Re: incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-22 Thread cyg Simple
On 8/22/2018 6:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > Ran in to this trying to use tar to store acls and xattrs: > >>  tar caf lawbins.tar scripts scripts- bin > tar: miner.js: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument > tar: run-crons.sys: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument > tar: smallprof.ou

incompat in cygwin choice of using '+' as domain and user separator.

2018-08-22 Thread L A Walsh
Ran in to this trying to use tar to store acls and xattrs: tar caf lawbins.tar scripts scripts- bin tar: miner.js: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument tar: run-crons.sys: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument tar: smallprof.out: Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument t