X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <43F264BE.2060202@student.lu.se> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:16:14 +0100 From: Lennart Borgman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Perl creates html-file, view from cmd.exe => Access is denied References: <43F25AF8.2010209@student.lu.se> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Lennart Borgman wrote: > > >> I use cygwin perl to create some html files from cygwin sh. When I then >> later from cmd.exe (or cygwin sh) try to open one of these files from >> the command line with >> >> temp.html >> >> I get the error "Access denied". This does not happen if I use the same >> trivial script from cmd.exe using ActiveState perl. >> >> There seem to be some problems with the ACL list for the created file. >> It looks to me like a cygwin bug. Below are more details. >> > > It's not a bug, it's a feature. (tm) > > Cygwin-created files are not executable unless they are explicitly created > with executable permissions on. Perl doesn't do that, so you get a > non-executable HTML file (and can't run this from CMD). ActiveState perl > lets Windows pick the file ACLs, which are usually based on directory > inheritance. To simulate this in Cygwin, use "CYGWIN=nontsec perl > myscript.pl". > > That said, you can also achieve the same effect (i.e., launching the > appropriate command for the file) by prepending "start" in cmd.exe or > "cygstart" in a Cygwin shell, no matter what the permissions are (i.e., > use "start temp.html" or "cygstart temp.html"). > HTH, > Igor > Many thanks for the quick and good explanations! -- 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/