X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: [ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r-- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:07:11 -0700 Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <20110721133148 DOT GL15150 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F202EC747E AT A1DAL1SWPES19MB DOT ams DOT acs-inc DOT net> <4E289C2F DOT 6010701 AT cygwin DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: <4E289C2F.6010701@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 7/21/2011 2:37 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 7/21/2011 5:13 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >>> From: Corinna Vinschen >>> On Jul 21 07:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: >>>> FWIW, I'm not running as administrator and I'm running 1.7.9, and I'm >>>> seeing the same thing: >>> What system? XP, Vista? 7? >>> What's the output of `id'? >> >> $ /usr/lib/csih/winProductName >> Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) >> $ id >> uid=12779(knellis) gid=10545(knellis) >> groups=10545(knellis),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users) >> $ uname -r >> 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) >> $ >> >> cygcheck -svr output attached > > Thanks. Are you doing the above steps from a directory on your C or D > drive? If D, is it an internal drive to that machine? If not, can > you tell us the kind of drive it is and send the results of > /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /cygdrive/d to the list. If you don't > have getVolInfo, please install the csih package. I'm seeing the exact same behavior. I see this on my C drive (I cd'ed to /tmp). The drive is: Usscandrewdl:/usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /cygdrive/c Device Type : 7 Characteristics : 20 Volume Name : <> Serial Number : 2956864138 Max Filenamelength : 255 Filesystemname : Flags : 700ff FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH : TRUE FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES : TRUE FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK : TRUE FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS : TRUE FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION : TRUE FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS : TRUE FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION : TRUE FILE_NAMED_STREAMS : TRUE FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME : FALSE FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE : FALSE FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS : FALSE -- Andrew DeFaria Why can we shop in a store but we can't store in a shop? -- 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