Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-06 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, R0b0t1! >> Please feel free to provide, using your superior understanding, a detailed >> spec >> for how POSIX ACLs and permissions should be implemented using Windows ACLs >> while maintaining "canonical" ACL order. > Or at the very least can another explanation of what is wrong be >

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-06 Thread R0b0t1
On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Brian Inglis wrote: > > Please feel free to provide, using your superior understanding, a detailed > spec > for how POSIX ACLs and permissions should be implemented using Windows ACLs > while maintaining "canonical" ACL order. Or at the very least can another exp

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-06 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2018-08-05 08:23, Stefan Kanthak wrote: > Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! >>> PS: >>> too states bloody lies: >>> | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars. >> 260 including drive letter.

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Michael Wild
On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 5:35 PM Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > > > Andrey Repin wrote: > > >> Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > >> > >>> PS: > >>> too states bloody lies: > >> > >>> | The Windows subsystem onl

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! >> >>> PS: >>> too states bloody lies: >> >>> | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars. > ~

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Stefan Kanthak
Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > >> PS: >> too states bloody lies: > >> | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars. ~~~ > > 260 includ

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Stefan Kanthak! > PS: > too states bloody lies: > | The Windows subsystem only supports CWD paths of up to 258 chars. 260 including drive letter. > The Win32 API supports pathnames with up to 32767 (Unicode

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-04 Thread Michael Wild
Hi Stefan On Sat, 4 Aug 2018, 19:12 Stefan Kanthak, wrote: > [...] > As Cygwin is a guest in the house of Windows, it should respect its hosts > house rules; instead it but violates them, and blames the host for its > faults! [...] > > Fix Cygwin's BUGGY ACL creation! > > [...] > > PS:

Re: Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-04 Thread Marco Atzeri
Am 04.08.2018 um 19:11 schrieb Stefan Kanthak: Hi, Hi Stefan, states: | There's just one problem when trying to map the POSIX permission model | onto the Windows permission model. ... | Canonical ACLs are unable to reflect each possi

Cygwin's ACL handling is NOT interoperable with Windows

2018-08-04 Thread Stefan Kanthak
Hi, states: | There's just one problem when trying to map the POSIX permission model | onto the Windows permission model. ... | Canonical ACLs are unable to reflect each possible combination of POSIX | permissions. ... | Again: This works