Re: Fwd: bug#27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions

[Paul Eggert]

Assaf Gordon wrote:
> set_permissions uses the USE_ACL #define to either call "set_acls"
> or call chmod/fchmod directly [4].

It vaguely sounds like a Gnulib bug if set_permissions isn't calling set_acls 
when it should. However, your summary of what goes wrong is a bit sketchy; I 
can't tell which lines of set-permissions.c are being executed in what order.