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Subject: Re: test -r or -x always return false on an NFS mount?
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Greetings, Mario Emmenlauer!

> thanks for the awesome Cygwin, its really great!

> But since today I met a problem: I mounted a Linux NFSv3 share using
> the Windows 10 shipped NFS client. The user and group ID are mapped
> via registry settings AnonymousUid and AnonymousGid in the entry
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ClientForNFS\CurrentVersion\Default

> Everything seems to work quite well, and in `ls -la` I can see the
> file permissions and user and group entries. But when using `test`
> to check for read (`test -r`) or execute permissions (`test -x`), it
> always returns false, even for readable files. `ls` on the other hand
> shows the permissions correctly, and `cat`ing the files works without
> problems.

> I've read https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-filemodes.html
> about the Cygwin file permissions for NFS, and also the NFS account
> mapping at https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nfs,
> but as far as I can see, they are both unrelated. Google turned up no
> useful hits for keywords "cygwin" "test" and "nfs", so I'm a bit at the
> end of my wit.

> Is this a known issue, and/or are there any workarounds? I'm currently
> using `test -e` in place of read or execute checks, but it basically
> breaks all my build scrips.

This is a known issue. For years known.
test only guess -r/-w/-x results based on permissions as it sees them.
But it do not actually try to read/write/execute the subject, which, as you
can imagine, may lead to all sorts of false positives/negatives on filesystems
with less than trivial access control setups.
In other words, don't test for rwx if you can avoid it. The results MAY be
wrong.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 18:42:12

Sorry for my terrible english...

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