X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:30:36 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7 Message-ID: <20091201173036.GE8059@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4B12FB72.9090206@x-ray.at> <270B141F0B5B480C9A668369AA2C53A3@liv3dworkpc> <5E63D05B501C4339A7D7F8909505E828@multiplay.co.uk> <4B15556A.4080108@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B15556A.4080108@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Dec 1 17:42, Dave Korn wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > > Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact > > that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually > > set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error. > > Also, it's not just perl, you can reproduce it in a shell: > > > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > > ls: cannot access /tmp/test.exe: No such file or directory > > > > $ touch /tmp/test.exe > > > > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe > > -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe > > > > $ cygpath -w /tmp/test.exe > > F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe > > > > $ chmod 777 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe' > > > > $ echo $? > > 0 That's by design. When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths, you will get Win32 default permission handling. Or, in other words, for all DOS paths the mount mode is "noacl". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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