[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.3.0-0.4

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Mon Dec 21 13:23:00 GMT 2015


On 23.10.2015 14:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 23 14:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Oct 23 11:06, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> I don't have much time to test it right now (and won't have any time at all
>>> next week), but so far things look good.  The problem with the 0.2 test
>>> version with UID/GID mapping and not recognizing the primary domain in some
>>> cases is gone (might have been a fluke anyway).  Correlating the output from
>>> getfacl and icacls still requires some mental gymnastics, but I didn't find
>>> any obvious errors in the mode bits and ACL so far, which means that things
>>> like rsync (and some file tests) will now return the correct results for the
>>> cases I've looked at.
>> You won't believe how grateful I am having you testing this.  Thank you!
>>
>> Would you mind to read the comment at the start of sec_acl.cc?
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/sec_acl.cc;hb=a8ec1e804ee9ba2d6f8304731e593dcf167c9836#l27
>
>> I'd be
>> very interested in learning if the description is meaningful enough to
>> other developers.  I also fear we need to have an improved documentation
>> explaining how this works and what NOT to do, e.g., reorder ACLs :|
Sorry for the late response...
The description is mostly meaningful. Just the coexistence of X and 
X_OBJ entries isn't self-explanatory.
------
Thomas

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