-----Original Message----- From: Cygwin On Behalf Of Larry Hall (Cygwin) Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2011 1:20 AM Subject: Re: NTFS write-protect flag translation (tar? rsync?) only one-way?
> On 4/5/2011 3:36 AM, Christian Gelinek wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have a problem with the tar command with the "extract permissions > > information" option being set. > > > > I am running Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.8(0.236/5/3) 2011-03-01 09:36) > > under Windows 7 (Windows 7 Professional N Ver 6.1 Build 7600) with NTFS and > > the CYGWIN=ntsec environment variable. > > > > It appears that when tar reads files for adding to archives, it correctly > > interprets the Windows-set "R" attribute, which is also seen by ls under > > Cygwin. After extracting the files using tar though, only Cygwin's ls > > command seems to be aware of the read-only attribute; the attrib command (as > > well as Explorer and other Windows-apps) see and handle the file as being > > writeable. > > The read-only attribute is a "Windows" thing. Cygwin's utilities focus on > supporting POSIXy/Linuxy ways of doing things. You can't expect Cygwin's > tools to manage all of Window's permission facilities in the same way as > Windows does. The read-only flag is one case where you'll see a divergence. > If you need that flag set, you'll need your own wrapper to set it based on > the POSIX (or ACL) permissions. The read-only attribute really is quite > anachronistic though IMO. It conflicts with the more powerful ACLs. If > you have the option, it's better not to use that flag. IMO the behaviour is inconsistent if the flag is used/interpreted on one (the read) operation but NOT being written/changed on the other (write) operation. My approach would be either drop it completely or support it on both ends (the preferred option). By the looks of it (see http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg00317.html), this problem has been addressed and potentially solved before, so I wonder if something is broken here. The background to all this is that I am using RCS (I know, almost as anachronistic as the read-only attribute, but that's dictated by my workplace) under both Windows and Linux and RCS relies heavily on the read-only attribute of files to be correct. IMO, it wouldn't hurt if the Cygwin tools would write the Windows read-only attribute when they create a Cygwin read-only file? Regards, Christian -- 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
