X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E28753C.2060101@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:51:40 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r-- References: <4E271C9E.3060408@redhat.com> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F202EC7114@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20110721133148.GL15150@calimero.vinschen.de> In-reply-to: <20110721133148.GL15150@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit 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 On 7/21/2011 9:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 21 07:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >>> From: Eric Blake >>> On 07/20/2011 12:05 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: >>>> Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I >>> missing >>>> something with my posix/windows file permissions settings >>> >>> If you are running as an administrator, that might explain it. Admins >>> can alter any file regardless of permissions, in which case [ -w is >>> telling you the truth that under your current uid, you can indeed write >>> to the file. >>> >>> This is a feature of access(file,W_OK), and not a bug. >> >> FWIW, I'm not running as administrator and I'm running 1.7.9, and I'm >> seeing the same thing: >> >> $ touch afile >> $ chmod 444 afile >> $ ls -l >> total 0 >> -r--r--r-- 1 knellis knellis 0 Jul 21 08:36 afile >> $ [ -w afile ]&& echo writable || echo not writable >> writable >> $ echo abc>> afile >> $ cat afile >> abc >> $ ls -l >> total 1 >> -r--r--r-- 1 knellis knellis 4 Jul 21 08:37 afile >> $ > > What system? XP, Vista? 7? > What's the output of `id'? Or even . ;-) -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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