[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1
David A. Wheeler
dwheeler@dwheeler.com
Mon Mar 9 15:02:00 GMT 2015
Corinna Vinschen:
> The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking
> permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the
> user's token. The access check can be improved and the permissions
> more correctly shown for the current user, but for any file and any
> user account, it'd be a lot of time-consuming effort.
I expect that improving the emulation for just the "current user" would be useful.
That is an *extremely* common situation.
--- David A. Wheeler
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