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Subject: Re: Snapshot cygwin-inst-20080327 regression in ls (permissions?)
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On Apr  6 21:52, James Abley wrote:
> On 02/04/2008, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> > I just looked into this stuff again.  Actually I had implemented reading
> >  reparse points so that directory junctions are recognized as symlinks.
> >  But it didn't work for these special junctions on Vista for two reasons.
> >
> >  First, it turned out that these junctions have an ACL which explicitely
> >  denies everyone FILE_READ_DATA access.
> >
> >  Second, the SYSTEM attribute was evaluated before the REPARSE attribute,
> >  so these special reparse points were erroneously opened as Cygwin old-
> >  style symlinks instead of reading the reparse data from them.
> >
> >  I applied a patch which you'll find in the next snaphshot, which fixes
> >  both problems.
> >
> >
> >  Corinna
> 
> Not sure you need this any more, but I'm including the requested
> strace output. Thanks for the quick turnaround, I'll test the later
> snapshots and see how I get on.

Thanks for the strace.  It supported my theory and the aforementioned
patch should fix the problem.  Please give the next developer snapshot
a try.


Corinna

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