* Wed 2002-11-06 Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list.cygwin * Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:49:57PM +0100, Ralf Fassel wrote: > >> - the ssh-host-config script should make sure that CYGWIN contains >> `ntsec' when trying the chmod/chown steps > > That shouldn't be necessary anymore since 1.3.14 sets ntsec by default > on NT systems. > >> - could `chown' be modified to complain if it fails to do the work it >> was supposed to do? It seems that the exit status is 0, and besides >> that the script simply does not care about the exit status of chown. > > Tricky. The problem (and the reason the script doesn't test the return > code) is, there are several conditions for having a working chown. It > must be NT/2K/XP, ntsec must be on, FS must be NTFS. The chown(2) syscall > returns intentionally always 0 if any of these conditions isn't met. > > There could be an additional test in the script after calling chown, > though...
Why not simply do a "grep" check for permissions found from ls -l listing of the /var/empty director? Jari -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
