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Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
- From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald at landheer dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:40:10 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>> In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a
>> "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable
>> permission bits would actually correspond to the executability
>> of a file? I mean, an explorer-created empty file is definitely not
>> executable - notably because it's empty.
> With ntsec on, stat() and friends report the permission bits set in
> the ACL. I wouldn't want to see anything else. The code using the
> mount info is only used when ntsec is off.
OK, thanx for the clarity :)
rlc
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