setfacl on Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu May 22 12:44:00 GMT 2008
On May 22 05:47, Eric Blake wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> According to Bruno Haible on 5/21/2008 5:05 PM:
> | Hi Eric,
> |
> | I'm looking at ACL support for gnulib. Can you reproduce this with a
> | recent Cygwin? With a two-year-old Cygwin I got this:
>
> I reproduced the same symptoms with cygwin 1.5.25-11.
>
> |
> | $ touch foo
> |
> | $ getfacl foo
> | # file: foo
> | # owner: haible
> | # group: None
> | user::rw-
> | group::r--
> | mask:rwx
> | other:r--
> |
> | $ setfacl -m user:4:--x foo
> | setfacl: No error
> |
> | $ echo $?
> | 0
> |
> | $ getfacl foo
> | # file: foo
> | # owner: haible
> | # group: None
> | user::rw-
> | group::r--
> | mask:rwx
> | other:r--
> |
> | The setfacl program
> | 1. complained about "No error",
> | 2. exited with exit code 0 although it did not execute the requested
> change.
The problem is that the request can't be executed because we have no
mapping from uid 4 to a Windows SID. OTOH, the underlying Solaris
function acl() does not define any error code for a non-existant user
because it's not an error on Solaris.
What error code do you want? EINVAL?
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
More information about the Cygwin
mailing list