Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 14 10:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 13 12:48, random user wrote: > > >> It's a bit late now to change how Cygwin constructs and evaluates ACLs. > > > > Sorry, with the holidays and other issues it wasn't possible for me to > > look at the test drops earlier. > > We're testing this C

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 13 12:48, random user wrote: > >> It's a bit late now to change how Cygwin constructs and evaluates ACLs. > > Sorry, with the holidays and other issues it wasn't possible for me to > look at the test drops earlier. We're testing this Cygwin change for four(!) months now. I release the fir

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-13 Thread random user
>> It's a bit late now to change how Cygwin constructs and evaluates ACLs. Sorry, with the holidays and other issues it wasn't possible for me to look at the test drops earlier. Going production with a new Cygwin NTFS ACL layout incompatible with NTFS-3g's already-existing layout would seem a lon

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 12 22:17, random user wrote: > Something I wasn't aware of at the time of our prior discussion is > that the Linux NTFS-3g driver already supports Linux extended ACLs > on NTFS. This is discussed at > > http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/ownership-and-permissions/ > > I exp

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-12 Thread random user
Something I wasn't aware of at the time of our prior discussion is that the Linux NTFS-3g driver already supports Linux extended ACLs on NTFS. This is discussed at http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/ownership-and-permissions/ I explored taking a flash card back and forth between C

[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.4.0-0.18

2016-01-11 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Cygwin friends and users, I released TEST version 2.4.0-0.18 of Cygwin. This is the last test release if nothing unexpected happens. I plan to release officially on Friday. What's new: --- - New, unified implementation of POSIX permission and ACL handling. The new ACLs now stor