Re: setfacl fails to replace ACLs when given a pathname starting with a drive letter

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 03/10/2010 03:42 PM, Francis Litterio wrote:
> This gets stranger.  Watch this:
> 
>   $ /bin/ls -l /cygdrive/c/temp/xyz
>   -rwx------+ 1 littef Domain Users 6714 Mar  1 15:07 /cygdrive/c/temp/xyz
>   $ /bin/ls -l c:/temp/xyz
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 littef Domain Users 6714 Mar  1 15:07 c:/temp/xyz
> 
> Notice the '+' indicating additional ACLs on the file when a UNIX pathname is
> used, but the '+' is missing when a drive-letter is used.  This also did not
> used to happen.  It is as if the presence of drive letters is suppressing
> awareness of ACLs within the Cygwin layer.
> 
> Anyone know if this was this done on purpose?

Yes, this is on purpose.  Use of a drive letter says that you DON'T want
POSIX path processing, therefore, you are also giving up ACL processing.
 Moral of the story - don't expect drive letters to do what you want.
Use POSIX paths.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
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