X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,BOTNET,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <50525827.4030308@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:03:19 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ls shows different permissions for the same file References: <505122CC DOT 3060306 AT cygwin DOT com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 9/13/2012 8:40 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote: > On 9/12/2012 8:03 PM, Larry Hall wrote: > >> No because with Windows paths Cygwin doesn't look at Windows ACLs. It >> just reports a default set of ugo permissions. > > Where does it get the default set of ugo permissions? Like I said before, they are hard-coded. It will look at the read attribute to decide whether or not to show write permissions for the file owner. But that's the extent of a glimpse into the real world, if you can call the read attribute the "real world". -- 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