On Jul 21 07:43, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Eric Blake > > On 07/20/2011 12:05 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: > > > Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I > > missing > > > something with my posix/windows file permissions settings > > > > If you are running as an administrator, that might explain it. Admins > > can alter any file regardless of permissions, in which case [ -w is > > telling you the truth that under your current uid, you can indeed write > > to the file. > > > > This is a feature of access(file,W_OK), and not a bug. > > FWIW, I'm not running as administrator and I'm running 1.7.9, and I'm > seeing the same thing: > > $ touch afile > $ chmod 444 afile > $ ls -l > total 0 > -r--r--r-- 1 knellis knellis 0 Jul 21 08:36 afile > $ [ -w afile ] && echo writable || echo not writable > writable > $ echo abc >> afile > $ cat afile > abc > $ ls -l > total 1 > -r--r--r-- 1 knellis knellis 4 Jul 21 08:37 afile > $
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