A notion about saving and restoring Windows file security info

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Jan 10 09:59:34 GMT 2022


On Jan  7 18:40, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> > No settings in that case.  *Iff* we do that, we should provide the native
> > ACLs in a consistent manner.
> 
> I have a small suggestion. Have you tried too look into existing
> implementations? Samba uses xattrs to store extra information for much the
> same purpose.
> See f.e. https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_acl_xattr.8.html

Thanks!


Corinna


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