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Date:	19 Jan 2000 00:13:00 +0200
From:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
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Subject:	Re: B20.1: test -w always returns false
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Hi Kevin,

>I've just upgraded from build 17 to build 20.1 and am disappointed as to the
>number of bugs introduced.

At least the thing you mentioned below isn't a bug - it is by design :)

>
>Try the following from bash or sh
>
>touch newfile
>chmod +w newfile
>test -w newfile && echo OK
># no response
>chmod -w newfile
>test -w newfile && echo OK
>#no response (as expected)
>
>I'm running NT4 SP5.

If you want this to work (nearly) as expected try to upgrade to Cygwin
1.0 or a newer snapshot and set CYGWIN=ntsec!

Bye.
Michael.
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