X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:44:30 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup] Message-ID: <20100319114430.GN6505@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4BA35384.1040100@frydenbo-bruvoll.com> <20100319112252.GL6505@calimero.vinschen.de> <4BA3658D.4060705@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA3658D.4060705@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 Mar 19 11:52, Dave Korn wrote: > On 19/03/2010 11:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > 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 If so, it would be really weird. I have a physical cygdrive as well and I can't reproduce his observation, except I use a DOS path or a cygdrive path, like, say getfacl C:/cygwin/cygdrive getfacl /cygdrive/c/cygwin/cygdrive 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