On Mar 9 10:46, David A. Wheeler wrote: > Corinna Vinschen: > > The problem is this. How long do you want `ls -l' take? Checking > > permissions is awkward and lengthy on Windows, unless you have the > > user's token. The access check can be improved and the permissions > > more correctly shown for the current user, but for any file and any > > user account, it'd be a lot of time-consuming effort. > > I expect that improving the emulation for just the "current user" would be > useful. > That is an *extremely* common situation.
I agree. Right now, there's only a check against the owning group of the file. When I rewrite the ACL handling, I'll add tests along these lines. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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