X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:47:40 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions? Message-ID: <20101006084740.GS5480@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9872BD92701C494686D002F1620610D0@ahallpc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9872BD92701C494686D002F1620610D0@ahallpc> 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 Oct 5 15:40, Andy Hall wrote: > If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab > > F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 > > mount shows > > $ mount > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) > F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,noacl) > C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) > > And ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows > > $ ls -l /cygdrive/f > total 2048 > drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds > drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases > [...] > Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but not > to /repos1? That's a restriction of the cygdrive prefix handling. You can't override the cygdrive mount options for a single drive. It's an all or nothing thingy. I guess it would help to refuse such paths in /etc/fstab or mount(1), or at least improve the documentation, but, well, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI. 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