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Re: setfacl on Cygwin
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:44:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: setfacl on Cygwin
- References: <200805220105.21773.bruno@clisp.org> <48355D5B.3030101@byu.net> <20080522123440.GF731@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On May 22 14:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 22 05:47, Eric Blake wrote:
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> > According to Bruno Haible on 5/21/2008 5:05 PM:
> > | Hi Eric,
> > |
> > | I'm looking at ACL support for gnulib. Can you reproduce this with a
> > | recent Cygwin? With a two-year-old Cygwin I got this:
> >
> > I reproduced the same symptoms with cygwin 1.5.25-11.
> >
> > |
> > | $ touch foo
> > |
> > | $ getfacl foo
> > | # file: foo
> > | # owner: haible
> > | # group: None
> > | user::rw-
> > | group::r--
> > | mask:rwx
> > | other:r--
> > |
> > | $ setfacl -m user:4:--x foo
> > | setfacl: No error
> > |
> > | $ echo $?
> > | 0
> > |
> > | $ getfacl foo
> > | # file: foo
> > | # owner: haible
> > | # group: None
> > | user::rw-
> > | group::r--
> > | mask:rwx
> > | other:r--
> > |
> > | The setfacl program
> > | 1. complained about "No error",
> > | 2. exited with exit code 0 although it did not execute the requested
> > change.
>
> The problem is that the request can't be executed because we have no
> mapping from uid 4 to a Windows SID. OTOH, the underlying Solaris
> function acl() does not define any error code for a non-existant user
> because it's not an error on Solaris.
>
> What error code do you want? EINVAL?
I applied a patch to CVS so this situation will return an "Invalid argument"
error message now.
Thanks for the report,
Corinna
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