Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:12:58 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.5.1 posix conformance for fopen Message-ID: <20040308141258.GC11141@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 8 20:22, Ghanshyam wrote: > 20A - When search permission is denied on a component of the > filename prefix, then a call to fopen(filename, type) returns a NULL pointer and sets > errno to [EACCES]. > In current implementation > ****fopen is successful even if search permission is denied. Windows allows by default access to files without checking the directory permissions of the parent directories. The setting is "Bypass traverse checking." Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/