ls shows different permissions for the same file

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 9/12/2012 2:57 PM, Boemker, Tim wrote:
> Larry,
>
> Do you mean that, with a POSIX path, I get ACL-based permissions, but
> with  Windows paths, I get just user-group-other permissions?

Not quite.  The POSIX path will give you the correct mapping of Windows
ACLs into ugo plus any additional ACLS that don't map will show up with
the '+' indicator.  With Windows paths, you get simple, hard-coded, ugo,
without any indication of further ACLs, if they exist.

> That sounds reasonable, but shouldn't they agree as far as they overlap?
> In the following example, for example, shouldn't they agree whether foo is
> writable by Domain Users?

No because with Windows paths Cygwin doesn't look at Windows ACLs.  It
just reports a default set of ugo permissions.

-- 
Larry

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