Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 6 10:41, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> On May 5 21:15, Matthias Meyer wrote: >> > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> > > Otherwise, the only difference as far as I can see is the fact that >> > > the user token attrib inherited from the Cygwin shell has more user >> > > rights >> > > enabled. Namely the backup and restore rights, which allows to >> > > access >> > > files and directories which are not available by default. However, >> > > this only works in an elevated shell, too. >> > > >> > > However, it's not Cygwin's fault that attrib is not up to speed with >> > > circular symlinks on an OS which allows them. >> > > >> > It seems to be the backup and restore rights. I can run a cmd as >> > administrator and attrib don't run into the endless loop. >> > Also I can run sh from a normal user and attrib will work right. >> > Only if I run attrib within a process with the backup and restore >> > rights attrib will run into this endless loop :-( >> >> There's a workaround for you, the cygdrop tool, part of the cygutils >> package. >> >> Here's an example: >> >> elevated bash$ cd /cygdrive/c/Users/All\ Users >> >> elevated bash$ attrib Desktop >> HR C:\ProgramData\Desktop >> >> elevated bash$ attrib Desktop\\Cygwin.lnk >> A C:\ProgramData\Desktop\Cygwin.lnk >> >> elevated bash$ cygdrop -p SeBackupPrivilege >> /cygdrive/c/Windows/System32/attrib -p Desktop\\Cygwin.lnk File not >> found - Desktop\Cygwin.lnk >> >> Unfortunately you have to use the full path to attrib to make it work >> since cygdrop doesn't perform a path search. > > Sorry about that. It appears I just stumbled over a Cygwin bug in terms > of casesensitivity when using the execp family of functions. Just > calling `cygdrop -p SeBackupPrivilege attrib' without full path should > be fine, but it only works on systems which are not configured for > casesensitivity. I'll fix that in CVS. > > > Corinna > Thank you very much. I will try it after solving my feature number one (cursor/backspace) ;-)
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