getfacl output

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Mon Jul 23 16:06:00 GMT 2018


On 7/23/2018 11:37 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 23 11:15, Ken Brown wrote:
>> [Redirecting to cygwin-patches.]
>>
>> On 7/23/2018 11:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 23 10:43, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> This is obviously very minor, but I bumped into it because of a failing
>>>> emacs test.
>>>>
>>>> Cygwin's getfacl prints only one colon after "mask" and "other", but Linux's
>>>> prints two.  I'm sure this was done for a reason, but I'm wondering if it
>>>> would be better to follow Linux.
>>>
>>> The original version was designed after Solaris documentation,
>>> but the layout is supposed to look like Linux for a while, so
>>> ther missing colon is a bug.
>>>
>>>>     I'll be glad to submit a patch.
>>>
>>> Glad to review it :)
>>
>> Attached.

> Pushed.  I just wonder if we shouldn't simplify getfacl to use
> acl_to_text instead.

Yes, that makes sense.  I'll take a look.

Ken



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