On Sep 3 10:38, Vince Indriolo wrote: > Interesting, the location of the file seems to matter. > [...] > For a file on my desktop: > $ ls -l foo > -rwx------+ 1 vince None 6 Sep 3 10:28 foo > $ ls -l .\\foo > -rw-r--r-- 1 vince None 6 Sep 3 10:28 .\foo
It's not the location, it's the use of backslashes. Native Windows paths are treated differently than POSIX paths: Native Windows path ==> Windows default security POSIX path ==> POSIX security Cygdrive paths are mounted as non-POSIX paths by default. See the output of mount: $ mount [...] C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) D: on /cygdrive/d type vfat (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) If you want to change that, create a cygdrive entry in /etc/fstab which sets the mount option "posix=1". 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
