Regarding a cygwin 1.7.9 bug w/ acls on network share (bug not present in 1.7.8).
Larry wrote: > On 9/15/2011 4:19 PM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > > Meanwhile, thanks for showing a workaround. Other colleagues are affected, > > so > > we will discuss whether we want to stay downgraded or start using > > explicit mounts. > > Another alternative is to try a snapshot. This issue should be addressed > there. > <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> I'll be happy to try most-recent snapshot to confirm/contradict that this symptom of the 1.7.9 bug is fixed in the source tree. But I won't be able to persuade colleagues to adopt a snapshot. FWIW, my issue sounds very much like Keith Christian's Subject: Writing to Windows Share issues fixed in cygwin1-20110829.dll.bz2 On 9/15 Keith said: > I stumbled across the following snapshot, cygwin1-20110829.dll.bz2, > and now I can create files in a Windows Share that I haven't been > able to properly access from Cygwin in months! > > Corinna, whatever changes you made to this snapshot have fixed the > problem for me, at least. Hope they can be included in the next > official cygwin1.dll release. Now I can start using the share from > Cygwin again. > > Great news! But then he had to backtrack... yes a symptom was fixed -- he can create files on his share, but another symptom of the same bug (or else a quite similar bug) still exists. On 9/16 Keith said: > I was wrong. > Only some improvement using the cygwin1-20110829.dll.bz2 snapshot. > Problems still exist when trying to check in a file with RCS on > this Windows share. -- 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
