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

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Francis Litterio <> wrote:
> I notice that setfacl does not change the ACLs of a file when given a pathname
> starting with a drive letter (e.g., c:/temp/zzz), but it will work when given a
> UNIX-style pathname (e.g., /cygdrive/c/temp/zzz).  Example below.  Is this a
> known problem?
> --
> Fran

I'm pretty sure it is more of a feature than a problem.

The path of c:/temp/zzz doesn't have any meaning in POSIX.  I suppose
we're lucky Cygwin supports that format for *any* actions.

-Jason

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