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Re: Permissions problem, maybe not cygwin-specific but still..


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According to Eric Lilja on 2/6/2007 1:33 AM:
> -rwx------+ 1 hivemind None 3.4K Feb  6 09:10 simple-2.2.html*
> 
> Then I do:
> $ mkdir 2.3
> 
> $ cp 2.2/simple-2.2.html 2.3/simple-2.3.html

> -rwx------ 1 hivemind None 3.4K Feb  6 09:24 simple-2.3.html*

The '+' means there are ACLs associated with the files.  getfacl and
setfacl are useful in this area.  Upstream coreutils has also been slowly
adding ACL support, but I haven't been following that closely enough, and
it doesn't seem that 'cp -p' preserves ACLs at this time.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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