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Re: [PATCH] Adjust more_finfo() on Win32 to behave more like its Unix/Linux counterpart

From: Andreas Magnusson <andreas.ch.magnusson_at_home.se>
Date: 2006-02-11 18:32:22 CET

D.J. Heap wrote:
>
> And it's utterly wasted since setting permissions on Win32 isn't even
> implemented in APR (and I'm not sure you can reasonably implement
> setting ACL permissions from a limited u/g/w API like APR currently
> has).
>
One clarification, the time spent is only getting the ACLs from the
files, it never tries to set them.

>
> Can you clean it up and submit a patch for discussion?

Will do.

> Personally I
> think it is pointless to try to fiddle with permissions in an ACL
> system -- you almost always just want to inherit the container
> permissions. And Subversion currently only fiddles with the readonly
> file attribute anyway. But we'll have to see what the other devs
> think.
>
> DJ

/Andreas

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