unclear wording on getfacl manpage (--all != ALL)

Sat Feb 28 14:02:00 GMT 2015

On Feb 27 15:58, Linda Walsh wrote:
> on the CYGWIN getfacl manpage, it has
>> -a, --all
> display the filename, the owner, the group, and the ACL of the
> file
>> --
> But in the linux version it says:
>>> -a, --access
> Display the file access control list.
>> --
>> The "--all" in the cygwin cygwin version sounds like it
> should display all ACL-related entries, but it really only
> displays the inode-specific acl on directories.
>> To display "all ACL-related entries", one uses no parameter.
>> The usage of "--all" to indicate the option "limits" output
> to only the "inode-specific" part is confusing and unclear.

The original getfacl was based on the Solaris getfacl (just as Cygwin's
ACL handling is based on the Solaris one). It only had -a. I guess the
--all was a thinko when adding the long options, as was --dir.
I changed that to --access and --default as on Linux. I kept the --all
and --dir in for backward compatibility. They are just undocumented now.
HTH,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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