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24.3.50; set-file-acl on MS Windows shall check ACL string format

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Message #47 received at 13226 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Romain Francoise <romain <at> orebokech.com>, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA,
	13226 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13226: 24.3.50;
	set-file-acl on MS Windows shall check ACL string format
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:44:29 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think this is worth supporting on a single platform.  All it
> does is save a single call to acl_set_file, which is not expensive
> enough to avoid at the price of yet another system-dependent code
> snippet.

In Tramp, it is a little bit more expensive. And as Romain already said,
it would work only on GNU/Linux systems. If we do it with a single line
of code, and if we don't expect basic attributes to be filtered out
mandatory, I don't see how it could harm.

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