[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 14 10:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 13 12:48, random user wrote:
> > >> It's a bit late now to change how Cygwin constructs and evaluates ACLs.
> > 
> > Sorry, with the holidays and other issues it wasn't possible for me to
> > look at the test drops earlier.
> 
> We're testing this Cygwin change for four(!) months now.  I release
> the first one on Sep 2nd.  It's a bit late now just to support some
> border case within 48 hours before the release.  Also consider that
> NFSv4 uses yet another way to create POSIX-like ACLs which apparently
> doesn't match the NTFS-3G layout either.  It's not so much the layout
> of the ACL which decides, it's that every implementation can work
> with the ones created by other implementations.  There's that weird
> problem with the dir recognized as socket, but that's something I'll
> look into at one point.

I did and found the problem.  Please give the latest snapshot from
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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