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

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:42:41PM +0000, Francis Litterio wrote:
>DePriest, Jason R. writes:
>> According to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames,
>> Cygwin supports both Win32 and POSIX file paths and they are
>> translated internally on-the-fly as needed.
>
>Indeed.  Cygwin has allowed pathnames to start with drive letters for as long as
>I can remember.

You might want to look at the release announcement for Cygwin 1.7.1.
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html

Specifically, the part that says:

- Incoming DOS paths are always handled case-insensitive and get no POSIX
  permission, as if they are mounted with noacl,posix=0 mount flags.

seems relevant.

cgf

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