Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: Cygwin 1.7.35-1

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar  9 10:46, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> 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.

I agree.  Right now, there's only a check against the owning group of
the file.  When I rewrite the ACL handling, I'll add tests along these
lines. 


Corinna

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