Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <4.1.19990301232226.01717350@mail.club-internet.fr> X-Sender: sbarre AT mail DOT club-internet DOT fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 23:27:50 +0100 To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" From: Sebastien Barre Subject: Re: [HELP] stat(), file permission, r/w access : i'm LOST :( Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990301163809.00994e00@pop.ma.ultranet.com> References: <4 DOT 1 DOT 19990301211226 DOT 016b1250 AT mail DOT club-internet DOT fr> <4 DOT 1 DOT 19990301145716 DOT 017379b0 AT mail DOT club-internet DOT fr> <36DA3AD8 DOT 2047C010 AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de> <4 DOT 1 DOT 19990301024703 DOT 01bbe6d0 AT mail DOT club-internet DOT fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 16:38 01/03/99 -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote: >This is a known bug. Arghh. >testing for file permissions will not return "yes" >unless that permission is given to everyone. This may be related to the >fact that you are the "Administrator" (see below). >544 is the "Administrator" group, which is used as the UID of everyone in >that group. But shall be used as GID instead. > This has been discussed many times on this list and is an NTism. Is there a workaround ? I mean, if this is a know bug, is there a way to fix it in the cygwin sources ? Thanks for your help ______________________________________________________________ Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com