Mail Archives: cygwin/2010/01/07/15:10:05
On Jan 7 15:00, Raman Gupta wrote:
> On 01/07/2010 02:50 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jan 7 13:42, Raman Gupta wrote:
> >>In any case, note that the KB article says that attrib *can* be used
> >>to see and modify the value -- as I demonstrated in my previous
> >>email.
> >
> >Sure. That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. While you
> >can set and reset the R/O bit on a dir, it doesn't have the *meaning* of
> >the directory being R/O. If Cygwin reports such a directory as being
> >read-only from the POSIX perspective, certain functions would have
> >strange ideas and return EACCES, for instance.
>
> In the case I am speaking of (a Samba share using the default
> settings), the functions *should* return EACCES, since on the
> server-side the directory is indeed non-writable.
I'm talking about the other case. The DOS R/O flag has nothing to do
with writability of a directory in the first place. If we treat a
directory as non-writable just because the DOS R/O flag is set, we're
making a mistake with consequences. The consequences in the opposite
case are much less problematic.
Corinna
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