Ken Takata wrote:
> I found that the current implementation of mch_get_acl() and mch_set_acl()
> in os_win32.c does not work well. There are some causes:
>
> 1. mch_get_acl() tries to retrieve all security information (Owner, Group,
> DACL and SACL), but it may fail because of lack of privileges.
> SE_SECURITY_NAME privilege must be held and must be enabled to retrieve
> SACL.
> 2. Setting Owner or Group may also fail if the caller doesn't have enough
> privileges.
> 3. mch_[gs]et_acl() functions don't support multibyte characters at all.
>
> I wrote a patch to fix these problems.
> (Also available at https://gist.github.com/3489193 )
>
> This patch may also fix a problem of Cygwin file modes.
> (e.g. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/gEQe2esLPAc/discussion )
> Even if 'backupcopy' is set to 'auto' or 'no', Cygwin file modes will be
> preserved. (Cygwin file modes are stored as DACL.)
Thanks! I'll add a note in the todo list.
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