On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:20:39PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:23  PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >No need to wait.  The backup is being done by tar on the cygwin client.
> >If it saves ACL info and resets them correctly, then amanda will.
> >
> >Do a test on your cygwin client just by creating and extracting a tar
> >archive.
> >
> 
> So, I tried this, and you are correct -- the ACLs aren't saved by tar 
> (I guess I was hoping that the cygwin tar would be able to work with 
> this... perhaps in future versions?

Highly unlikely.  The cygwin developers change as little as possible
and the gnutar code compiles with no changes.

I have a demo copy of MicroSoft's equivalent to cygwin, "Services For Unix"
(SFU).  Their tar (which is really pax) specifically says it will not do
Windows ACL's.  If M$ doesn't do it, unlikely the cygwin developers at
RedHat will.

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