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Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:08:27 -0400
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On 9/12/2012 8:20 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote:
> ls reports different permissions for the same file, depending on whether I provide a Windows-form path or a UNIX-form path:
>
> $ /bin/ls -ldi c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
> 7318349394635879 drwxrwxrwx+ 1 tboemker Domain Users 0 Sep 12 07:56 /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
> 7318349394635879 drwxr-xr-x  1 tboemker Domain Users 0 Sep 12 07:56 c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
>
> $ /bin/ls --version
> ls (GNU coreutils) 8.15
> Packaged by Cygwin (8.15-1)
> ...
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

No, no bug.  If you specify the POSIX path, you get full POSIX permission
emulation.  If you provide Windows paths (or the mount point under which
the file in question lives is mounted with the 'noacl' option), you get
default, hard-coded POSIX permissions.

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Larry

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