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From: mwoehlke <mwoehlke@tibco.com>
Subject:  Re: Read-only samba directory appears writable to Cygwin
Date:  Mon, 22 May 2006 13:33:43 -0500
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Peter Fales wrote:
> We've got a directory which is mounted from a Samba server.  The server
> is sharing the directory as read-only.  However under Cygwin
> 
> 	access("/path/to/samba/mount/some_file",W_OK) 
> 
> is returning 0, indicating the that file is writable.    I assume this
> is because Cygwin doesn't "know" that directory is read-only.   Is there
> any workaround (such as an option to "mount") that would tell cygwin
> that the directory is read-only, or that all directories have 555 permission
> instead of 755?

Hmm, if you were asking this of Linux, I'd say 'use a umask option in 
the mount'... does Cygwin not have such a thing? (NOTE: That question is 
directed at the other Cygwin folks; I looked and did not find one in the 
'man' so I'm guessing it does not?)

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Matthew
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