Greetings, Will Parsons! > I've been using Cygwin for some time now, but recently decided to try > a parallel installation of Cygwin 64 on the same machine. I've > noticed a strange discrepancy between how Cygwin 32 & 64 report file > permissions:
> (32-bit) > % uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW sothis 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07 i686 Cygwin > % touch x > % chmod a-w x > % ls -l x > -r--r--r-- 1 william None 0 Mar 5 17:41 x > % ls -ln x > -r--r--r-- 1 197608 197121 0 Mar 5 17:41 x > (64-bits) > % uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 sothis 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:09 x86_64 Cygwin > % ls -l x > -rw-r--r-- 1 william None 0 Mar 5 17:41 x > % ls -ln x > -rw-r--r-- 1 197608 197121 0 Mar 5 17:41 x > Why does 64-bit Cygwin have a different idea of whether the file is > writable? Because they get different mount options? That would've been my first guess. I could be wrong, though. Either way, Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 06.03.2015, <06:00> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
