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Re: noacl functionality for MS-DOS destination paths?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:45:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: noacl functionality for MS-DOS destination paths?
- References: <494B28B9.1070902@i12.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Dec 18 20:53, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
> Is there any way to get noacl functionality when using MS-DOS destination
> paths?
>
> My etc/fstab file (below) applies noacl for UNIX destination paths e.g.
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\mkdir.exe /c/foo
>
> creates directory C:\foo with NTFS default permissions inherited from
> parent directory C:\ (the same as DOS mkdir C:\foo would do).
>
> But an MS-DOS destination path, e.g.
>
> C:\cygwin\bin\mkdir.exe C:\foo
>
> causes Cygwin to ignore noacl in etc/fstab and create C:\foo with
> POSIX-like permissions (non-NTFS default and not inherited from parent
> directory C:\).
>
> According to http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html#mount-table
>
> "Otherwise, the handling of MS-DOS filenames bypasses the mount table"
>
> But if Cygwin 1.7 bypasses etc/fstab for MS-DOS filenames and no longer
> supports the nontsec option, I'm stuck.
>
> When using MS-DOS destination paths in Cygwin 1.7, is there any way to get
> noacl functionality - i.e. where Cygwin creates objects with NTFS default
> permissions inherited from their parent directory rather than POSIX-like
> permissions?
>
> If not, are there any plans to add such functionality to Cygwin 1.7?
Not yet. I'm reluctant to add a setting just for DOS paths. What we
could do is to handle incoming DOS paths always in dumb Windows mode
(noacl,posix=0). Given that they are not POSIX paths anyway, there's
probably not a lot of sense in treating them POSIXy.
Corinna
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