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Re: Cygwin 1.3.17 changes ls -l output


Pierre,

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:15:07AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 07:36:49AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> > Was this change intentional?  Or, was it a side effect of the
> > following?
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 07:15:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > - Fix Sun acl functions.  (Corinna Vinschen, Pierre Humblet)
> 
> It is a side effect. 
> The + indicates that the ACL contains more entries than necessary to
> represent the Unix modes. 

Thanks for the above clarification.

Should the "+" be suppressed?  Or, should Cygwin behave like other
Unixes (e.g., Solaris, HP-UX, etc.) that support ACLs?

If the latter, then I need to submit a patch for one of the Python
regression tests.

Thanks,
Jason

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