Duplicate ACLs? - Can't copy file even with Admin permissions

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 18 21:26, cygwin@kosowsky.org wrote:
> On Jan 04:14 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > I uploaded a developer snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots
> > Please give it a try.
> 
> Indeed, the new cygwin.dll does allow me to copy the files and it does
> preserve the 'getfacl' (POSIX) acl's (as above).
> However, it does *not* preserve the full ACL's as reported by 'icacls'.
> [...]
> So, the full Windows ACLs as indicated by 'icacls' differ.
> Is this the expected behavior??? If so, why???

Cygwin converts the DACL into a a POSIX ACL on the API level and Cygwin
tools consequentially read and write POSIX ACLs, which differ from
Windows ACLs.


Corinna