On Mar 9 12:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 9 11:11, Fergus wrote: > > >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2007-q3/msg00035.html > > > > Thanks, Corinna, amazingly helpful and prompt (and concise) as usual. > > However: here is an excerpt from a DOS command prompt: > > > > Q:\home\user>dir /ar /s /b <Enter> > > Q:\home\user\sc\l\gn > > Q:\home\user\sc\d\amy.d > > > > In other words, under $HOME, there is one read-only folder > > ~/sc/l/gn/ and one read-only file ~/sc/l/d/amy.d. > > However, ls -al exhibits this attribute only for the file and not > > the folder: > > > > ~> # NB In what follows ... > > ~> # ... amy.d shows up as -r-- not -rw- GOOD ... > > ~> # ... but gn shows up as drwx not d-wx NOT SO GOOD > > ~> ls -alR sc > > ... > > sc/d: > > ... > > -r--r--r-- 1 fergus q.1.7 4829 Feb 16 07:00 amy.d > > ... > > sc/l: > > drwxr-xr-x 1 fergus q.1.7 0 Mar 8 14:56 gn/ > > ... > > > > and if [ -w ... also gets things wrong: > > > > ~> if [ -w sc/d/amy.d ] ; then echo +W ; else echo -W ; fi > > -W > > ~> if [ -w sc/l/gn ] ; then echo +W ; else echo -W ; fi > > +W > > > > Is this something that could receive attention? (Hope I haven't > > somehow got things wrong myself.) > > First of all, this is something entirely different from what you were > asking in your OP. > > Second, keep in mind that the R/O attribute on directories does not > indicate a read-only directory, therefore it's ignored by Cygwin as > well. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326549.
If you really need a R/O directory you should set the actual NTFS permissions using chmod. Forget the DOS attributes. 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
