ACEs and ACLs

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 18 14:43:02 GMT 2024


On Mar 18 08:30, J. Terry Corbet via Cygwin wrote:
> Thank you for the greatly needed assistance, but the reference to which you
> have pointed me says that noacl will be ignored in the case of ntfs file
> systems.

No, it doesn't say that.  It says

  "The flag is ignored on NFS filesystems."
                          ^^^
                        not NTFS

> All of mine are and that has not changed, neither has the default
> entry in fstab, which seems always to have been:
> 
> none /cygdrive cygdrive binary, posix=0, user 0 0

Well, the code in question hasn't changed for years either.


¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Corinna


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