X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090810164057.GV3204@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20090810132515.GP3204@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090810164057.GV3204@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:55:42 +0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Perl bug (was Re: [1.7] cygwin allows writing to readonly files) From: Alexey Borzenkov To: Reini Urban , cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > That's a bug in perl. =C2=A0There are other OSes out there which have > root-like permissions for non-0 uids. =C2=A0Perl should use the access() > function to check for read/write/execute permissions, which always > returns the correct result independent of the uid of the current user. Ah, so it is actually possible on other OSes, I didn't know that. Then maybe you're right. Thanks for clarifying. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple