X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:58:14 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not. Message-ID: <20081231235814.GA23121@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <495C00DF.5020208@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <495C00DF.5020208@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote: >It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly >read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1" >does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in >Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read Only DOS >attribute. This is set by Cygwin 1.5 but not by Cygwin 1.7. If I >manually set it for Cygwin 1.7, the file does become read-only. > >(This issue was brought to my attention by a failing subversion test >after building for 1.7.) Hmm. I can duplicate this but this is all Corinna's code so it might take a while to track down. It's a pretty serious bug though. Would you be willing to see if this is a recent 1.7 problem by trying some older DLLs? cgf -- 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/