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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:37:50 +0200
From:	Christian Franke <Christian DOT Franke AT t-online DOT de>
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Subject:	Inconsistent setting of readonly attribute in 1.7 ?
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If ACLs are used, Cygwin 1.7 chmod() does never set R/O attribute, but 
open() sets it if a R/O file is created:

$ touch test1

$ chmod a=r test1

$ cp -p test1 test2

$ ls -l test1 test2
-r--r--r-- 1 franke users 0 Aug 26 19:33 test1
-r--r--r-- 1 franke users 0 Aug 26 19:33 test2

$ attrib 'test?'
A          C:\cygwin\tmp\test1
A    R     C:\cygwin\tmp\test2



The chmod() behavior is intentional:

fhandler_disk_file::fchmod (mode_t mode)
...
  if (mode & (S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH))
    pc &= (DWORD) ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY;
  else if (!pc.has_acls ()) /* Never set DOS R/O if security is used. */
    pc |= (DWORD) FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY;


This change might be enough (or not):

fhandler_base::open (int flags, mode_t mode)
...
      -if (!(mode & (S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)))
      +if (!pc.has_acls () && !(mode & (S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)))
         file_attributes |= FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY;



-- 
Regards,
Christian Franke


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