On Aug 19 16:21, L Anderson wrote: > In directory /cygwin/bin of my cygwin installation, > > $ ls -l //yields: > [snip] > -rwxr-xr-x 1 lowella Administrators 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe > > and > > $ ls -ln //yields > [snip] > -rwxr-xr-x 1 1000 544 73742 Nov 14 2010 zsyncmake.exe > > and > > $ stat -c '%A %a %n' * //yields: > [snip] > -rwxr-xr-x 755 zsyncmake.exe > > all quite consistent and pretty much as expected. > NB: zsyncmake.exe is the last file listed from /bin. > > However, > > $ getfacl -a zsyncmake.exe //yields: > # file: zsyncmake.exe > # owner: lowella > # group: Administrators > user::rwx > group::--- > mask:rwx > other:r-x > > Why does getfacl give "group::---" instead of "group::r-x" as > appears in the ls and stat listings? Is this a bug in getfacl?
No. getfacl shows the ACL as is (from a POSIX perspective), the stat/ls information shows the effective POSIX permissions for the group which are a result of the facts that "Everyone" has r-x permissions and that permissions on Windows are cumulative. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
