Subject: Re: bug#13226: 24.3.50; set-file-acl on MS Windows shall check ACL string format

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:38:12 +0100

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> We should probably change file-acl so that its return value is tagged
> with the "acl-system" it uses.  It could be a prefix like "w32:".
> Then we can change set-file-acl so that it can either try to perform
> conversion or signal a proper error that copy-file can handle.

D'accord. Instead of a prefix, `file-acl' could return a cons cell like
'(w32 . "ACL-STRING").

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.