X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,TW_JR X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r-- From: Reid Thompson Reply-To: Reid.Thompson@ateb.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <1311185147.5730.20.camel@raker.ateb.com> References: <1311185147.5730.20.camel@raker.ateb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:07:26 -0400 Message-ID: <1311185246.5730.21.camel@raker.ateb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:05 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I missing > something with my posix/windows file permissions settings > > reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~ > $ ls -rlt afile > -r--r--r-- 1 reid.thompson Domain Users 6 2011-07-20 14:02 afile > > reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~ > $ if [ -w afile ]; then echo " file is writeable"; else echo " file > is not writeable"; fi > file is writeable > $ uname -r 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) -- 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