Craig Ringer, 16.09.2011 05:02:
On 15/09/2011 4:18 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
I ran another install and monitored what the process was doing and
it *is* recursively touching all files on my harddisk when

icacls C:\ /grant "tkellerer":RX

is called. Even without the /t switch.

That's a worry.

It'd be interesting to generate a Process Monitor trace for this, as
it'll show exactly what iacls is doing. Just having a handle open to
some random file is weird, but it'd be good to know if it's messing
with permissions too.

I have created such a trace file which is quite large, so I removed a lot of 
repetitions where each and every file that was processed was shown. I hope it 
still contains enough information for you to find out what is going on.

I have uploaded the file here: http://www.sql-workbench.net/icacls_trace.zip

As this works correctly on XP I'm wondering if there is a substantial 
difference between cacls.exe (which is used on XP by the installer script) and 
the new icacls.exe

I wonder if it's to do with ACL inheritance? Maybe one of the
inheritance control flags like "NP" is needed. I don't know enough
about NT permissions to say, but inheritance would be my suspect.

No, idea either. I am by no means a Windows expert.

Regards
Thomas


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