Problems with CPAN

[Sven Köhler]

>>but: shouldn't there be a better conversion of NT-ACLs to unix-perms?
>>perhaps a POSIX-ACL implementation?
> 
> We have a Solaris compatible implementation of ACLs.  Look into
> /usr/include/cygwin/acl.h (which is called from sys/acl.h).  This
> is e. g. used to implement access(2) and the tools setfacl(3) and
> getfacl(3).  It's an official part of the Cygwin API since two
> years or so.

oops - shame on me - didn't know we had an ACL-implementation already.

> I thought about implementing POSIX-ACLs once but the POSIX implementation
> requires a lot of rework and I'm not sure if it's worth the effort since
> POSIX IEEE Std. 1003.1e has been withdrawn.

hmm - i just thought about the stat() call and why it could fail on a 
file - shouldn't this happen too on an ACL using UNIX-System in some 
cases? and how do these systems overcome this problem?


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