Problem with new acl code and cdrtools
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Feb 8 13:18:00 GMT 2016
On Feb 8 12:01, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> cdrtools has some code to detect Solaris style ACLs:
>
> #if defined(HAVE_ACL) && defined(HAVE_FACL) && \
> defined(HAVE_ACLFROMTEXT) && defined(HAVE_ACLTOTEXT)
> # define HAVE_SUN_ACL 1 /* Sun UFS ACL's present */
> #endif
>
> Since cygwin still seems to be defining aclfromtext() and acltotext()
> functions (which are not defined in POSIX) cdrtools thinks this a
> Solaris-style system and get up getting a compile error later on.
Probably due to including sys/acl.h. Does swtiching to cygwin/acl.h
help? Or changing the above check to prefer POSIX ACLs over Solaris
ACLs?
> Since we are switching to POSIX ACLs it would be nice to remove
> Solaris-only ACL functions.
We can't do that for backward compatibility. The Solaris function
have to stay available, not the least for Cygwin's getfacl/setfacl
which still use them.
Corinna
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