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From:	Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:	Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--
Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:15:12 -0700
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On 07/21/11 23:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 21 22:25, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> On 07/21/11 19:50, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>>> On 7/21/2011 9:07 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>>>> I'm seeing the exact same behavior. I see this on my C drive (I
>>>> cd'ed to /tmp). The drive is:
>>> Weird.  So what are you using?  XP and Cygwin 1.7.9 or something else?
>> Yes. At work XP and 1.7.9.
>>
>> Here at home it's Win 7 (VM) and 1.7.7. Still the same:
>>
>> Neptune:pwd
>> /tmp
>> Neptune:df .
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> C:/cygwin             54604900  19369104  35235796  36% /
>> Neptune:ll afile
>> -r--r--r-- 1 andrew None 0 2011-07-21 22:24 afile
>> Neptune:[ -w afile ]&&  echo writable || echo not writable
>> writable
>> Neptune:echo abc>>  afile
>> Neptune:ll afile
>> -r--r--r-- 1 andrew None 4 2011-07-21 22:24 afile
>> Neptune:uname -a
>> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 Neptune 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin
>> Neptune:
> Output of `id', please?  Is the administrators group in the group
> list?  If so, problem solved.
>
>
> Corinna
Ugh. You're right. I'm in the administrators group. Sorry.
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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