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: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:07:13 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: No permissions on files created outside Cygwin Message-ID: <20050413110713.GB22241@cygbert.vinschen.de> 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 Apr 13 09:29, daniel.steinmann@ubs.com wrote: > > > Not really. It doesn't explain what gvim exactly does. The > > only chance I see is that you weren't logged in as t131085 > > when creating the file, but as a local admin account. > > The gvim process has 0 as UID: > > pidde2@w01b1k85 ~ > $ ps -fW | grep gvim > 0 3564 0 ? 09:27:39 D:\programs\Vim\vim63\gvim.exe > > Does this make sense? Nope. The ps output from the Windows List (-W) apparently doesn't evaluate the UID always correctly. > Does it help to reinstall cygwin completly? Usually not. Looking more closely into the permissions and perhaps regenerating /etc/passwd and /etc/group might help more. Or just use Cygwin's vim ;-) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader 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/