X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BA36211.30109@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:37:53 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Aage_Frydenb=F8-Bruvoll?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup] References: <4BA35384.1040100@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> <20100319112252.GL6505@calimero.vinschen.de> <4BA3658D.4060705@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA3658D.4060705@gmail.com> 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-Id: 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 Dave, Corinna, On 19/03/2010 11:52, Dave Korn wrote: > On 19/03/2010 11:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Thanks for the thorough explanation. >> On Mar 19 10:35, Jan-Aage Frydenb?-Bruvoll wrote: >> >>> >> The permissions of the underlying directory are not reflected in >> the fstat API. We're pretending the cygdrive directory has fixed >> 0555 permissions because it's a virtual directory. You could >> remove the actual directory and cygdrive would still exist. >> >> >>> Fri Mar 19 10:30:03 jan@aeolus:/ >>> $ getfacl.exe /cygdrive >>> # file: /cygdrive >>> # owner: jan >>> # group: Administrators >>> user::rwx >>> group::r-x >>> other:r-x >>> mask:rwx >>> >> Huh? How did you do that? >> > Perhaps Jan has a real physical /cygdrive directory shadowing the virtual > one and there's some inconsistency about when and whether the virtual dir's > perms or the real dir's ACLs get used? And in that case, perhaps deleting the > physical directory would make duplicity work... > Hm - doesn't seem like that's the case. Fri Mar 19 11:36:22 jan@aeolus:/ $ rmdir.exe cygdrive Fri Mar 19 11:36:24 jan@aeolus:/ $ ls -ld cygdrive d--x--x--x 5 jan Administrators 0 2006-12-01 00:00 cygdrive Fri Mar 19 11:36:30 jan@aeolus:/ $ getfacl.exe /cygdrive # file: /cygdrive # owner: jan # group: Administrators user::rwx group::r-x other:r-x mask:rwx Best regards Jan -- 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