X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:34:07 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwin permissions problem on a network drive Message-ID: <20111021173407.GI2976@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <CC0D9E8456BA41488A76AFE4E8F3A36902731CC0 AT de011305 DOT de DOT ina DOT com> <j7q925$5sd$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org> <20111021085010 DOT GF13505 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <CC0D9E8456BA41488A76AFE4E8F3A3690278A577 AT de011305 DOT de DOT ina DOT com> <20111021105510 DOT GC2979 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <j7rus9$e59$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org> <20111021143913 DOT GE2976 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> <j7s6q4$b0d$1 AT dough DOT gmane DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <j7s6q4$b0d$1@dough.gmane.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> 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 Oct 21 12:32, gds wrote: > > If I do chmod 000 testfile I see with ls -l: > -r--r--r-- > If I do chmod 777 testfile I see > -rw-r--r-- > So there is a small effect but not much. In noacl mode or on file systems not supporting ACLs (FAT, for instance) permissions are emulated using the DOS R/O bit to set the write flag and file suffixes and magic numbers to emulate the execute bit. That's what you see above. That's actually documented in the User's Guide: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-filemodes.html > Sorry, in reading your previous explanations (quoted below), I am > still not sure whether you are saying this new behavior is a feature > or bug in cygwin, a bug in my app using cygwin (e.g., svn) something > changed in windows setup of permissions. Just to put it here (since > thread has become separated) here is what you said previously: It's a bug in 1.7.9 that you can't create files in this scenario. It's fixed in CVS. It's not a bug in 1.7.9, nor in CVS, that an application gets a "Permission denied" error when it tries to change file permissions in this scenario. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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