Re: win dirs don't handle lack of inherited rule(?): getfacl + tar dir Warning: Cannot acl_to_text: Invalid argument

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 15 07:46, L A Walsh wrote:
> On 3/15/2019 6:34 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 15 06:25, Brian Inglis wrote:
> >   
> >> On 2019-03-13 05:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>     
> >>> I pushed a patch and uploaded new developer snapshots to
> >>> https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
> >>>       
> >> In my experience no DACLs results in no POSIX permissions for Cygwin programs,
> >> although Explorer and some other Windows programs can see and read them.
> >>     
> >
> > I didn't say "no DACL".  The DACL is present, there's just no inheritable
> > entry in there and that's no problem for Cygwin.
> >   
> ----
> Well the patch seems to work -- no error messages.  Don't know about
> any other details than that.  The file perms are a combination of
> rwx for user and group and nothing for 'other', despite there being
> no 'default' acl. 
> 
> Also, I was able to take a tar from cygwin with acls+xattrs, and
> extract it on my samba server and have the permissions recreated
> on linux as they were on windows!
> 
> That was a first.  Not all of the utils work so well, but tar
> restored my win-perms on linux.  Rather neat.

Thanks for testing!  I'm planning to release Cygwin 3.0.4 with this
patch included, probably over the weekend.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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