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

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: romain <at> orebokech.com, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>, 13226 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13226: 24.3.50; set-file-acl on MS Windows shall check ACL string format
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:43 -0500

> I think we are taking this feature out of proportions.  It was
> supposed to allow copying extended attributes from file to file; for
> that, we don't need to care whether the ACL is trivial or not.  But
> now we seem to start down the road of trying to interpret the ACL,
> which would need much more complex machinery.

That makes sense, yes.  BTW, I don't think we should document that
file-acl returns a string.  The representation should be documented
as undocumented and prone to change (ideally opaque).


        Stefan

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