[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cygwin "cp" from Windows client does not preserve permissions

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Andrew Martin wrote:
>
> I wasn't able to find any documentation on Cygwin extensions to deal
> with ACLs - did you have a particular utility in mind for this?

I suggest reading the Cygwin user guide at 
"https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html".  ACLs are 
addressed there.  Besides the discussions of how Cygwin emulates Unix 
behavior, there is documentation for getfacl and setfacl.

> I would expect that the normal behavior of cp would be as you said that
> it would not preserve permissions, and thus the new files in this
> subdirectory would be assigned the inherited ACLs - correct? This didn't

Normally cp should give copied files the user's current UID/GID and 
file permissions according to the current 'umask'.  For Cygwin, this 
would mean creating an ACL which emulates POSIX behavior.

Bob
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