Preserving NTFS permissions.

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Mon Jul 2 21:54:39 GMT 2007


simo wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 15:29 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> You guys should know by now that I like to grok something in a deep and
>> meaningful way before I approach it with a pointed stick.  :)
>>
>> Okay.  I'll see if we can put together something that just stores and
>> retrieves the ACEs as a first step.
>>
>> The thing that still confuses me is that the default VFS behavior seems to
>> take the settings from Windows systems and map them to the Posix bits, which
>> in turn impacts the VFAT bitmap interpretation.  There's something weird
>> going on there.
> 
> No they are not necessarily in the way, look at "store dos attributes".

Thanks.  I've looked at that attribute.  I'll have to look at the code to
see what's going on.  :)

Chris -)-----

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