noacl functionality for MS-DOS destination paths?

Lawrence Mayer lawmay3@i12.com
Fri Dec 19 22:47:00 GMT 2008


> On Dec 18 20:53, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
>> Is there any way to get noacl functionality when using MS-DOS destination
>> paths?
>>
>> My etc/fstab file (below) applies noacl for UNIX destination paths e.g.
>>
>> C:\cygwin\bin\mkdir.exe /c/foo
>>
>> creates directory C:\foo with NTFS default permissions inherited from
>> parent directory C:\ (the same as DOS mkdir C:\foo would do).
>>
>> But an MS-DOS destination path, e.g.
>>
>> C:\cygwin\bin\mkdir.exe C:\foo
>>
>> causes Cygwin to ignore noacl in etc/fstab and create C:\foo with
>> POSIX-like permissions (non-NTFS default and not inherited from parent
>> directory C:\).
>>
>> According to http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#mount-table
>>
>> "Otherwise, the handling of MS-DOS filenames bypasses the mount table"
>>
>> But if Cygwin 1.7 bypasses etc/fstab for MS-DOS filenames and no longer
>> supports the nontsec option, I'm stuck.
>>
>> When using MS-DOS destination paths in Cygwin 1.7, is there any way to get
>> noacl functionality - i.e. where Cygwin creates objects with NTFS default
>> permissions inherited from their parent directory rather than POSIX-like
>> permissions?
>>
>> If not, are there any plans to add such functionality to Cygwin 1.7?


On 11:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Not yet.  I'm reluctant to add a setting just for DOS paths.  What we
> could do is to handle incoming DOS paths always in dumb Windows mode
> (noacl,posix=0).  Given that they are not POSIX paths anyway, there's
> probably not a lot of sense in treating them POSIXy.
>
>
> Corinna


Thanks so much for replying Corinna. I completely agree that always 
handling DOS paths with noacl,posix=0 makes sense and is a substantial 
improvement.

I'm amazed how quickly you implemented this change into v1.7.0-36! 
Thanks so much!

Would you like any help updating the Cygwin User's Guide to reflect this 
change? If so:

(1) Should I submit a diff -u against
http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html?

(2) Should I send the diff to cygwin-patches@cygwin.com?

Holiday Greetings,
Lawrence

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