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Ubuntu on Windows

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2049 points bpierre | 1 comments | 30 Mar 16 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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NateDad ◴[30 Mar 16 20:41 UTC] No.11392819[source]▶
Given that I work on a cross platform application for linux & windows... I'll be interested to see if they try to hide some of the more annoying platform compatibility problems.... like the fact that many linux applications assume you can rename/delete a file while it's still open, and windows won't let you.

Also filesystem ACLs are quite different on linux and windows, it'll be interesting to see exactly how the one maps to the other. What will chown and chmod do?

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1. JdeBP ◴[03 Apr 16 21:13 UTC] No.11417773[source]▶
> windows won't let you

This is a common misconception. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415366 .

> filesystem ACLs are quite different on linux and windows

It's not that simple. Filesystem ACLs are different between TRUSIX-style and NFS-style, too. Try using a TRUSIX-style setfacl on PC-BSD when the volume has been mounted with NFS-style ACLs, some time. (-:

> What will chown and chmod do?

One thing that was noticeable from Microsoft's demonstration video was that everything seemed to be owned by the superuser and have execute permissions. That included a .gitignore and a README.md file.