[PATCH] cygwin: doc: Add keywords for ACE order issues

David Macek david.macek.0@gmail.com
Tue May 12 20:49:15 GMT 2020


Windows Explorer shows a warning with Cygwin-created DACLs, but putting
the text of the warning into Google doesn't lead to the relevant Cygwin
docs.  Let's copy the warning text into the docs in the hopes of helping
confused users.

Latest inquiry: <https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-May/244814.html>

Signed-off-by: David Macek <david.macek.0@gmail.com>
---
 winsup/doc/ntsec.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml b/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml
index 08a33bdc6c..b94cdd9a97 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/ntsec.xml
@@ -2163,7 +2163,10 @@ preferred order.</para>
 the Windows Explorer insists to rearrange the order of the ACEs to
 canonical order before you can read them. Thank God, the sort order
 remains unchanged if one presses the Cancel button.  But don't even
-<emphasis role='bold'>think</emphasis> of pressing OK...</para>
+<emphasis role='bold'>think</emphasis> of pressing OK...  For the sake
+of people searching for this explanation, let's note that the Explorer
+warning says "The permissions on ... are incorrectly orderer, which may
+cause some entries to be ineffective."</para>
 
 <para>Canonical ACLs are unable to reflect each possible combination
 of POSIX permissions. Example:</para>
-- 
2.26.2.windows.1



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