On Monday 03 February 2003 12:03 pm, Max Bowsher wrote: > Andrew Chang wrote: > > I have a situation in which a cygwin app created a file, chmod it to > > readonly. > > then we have a win32 app chomd the same file to writable (0644). > > In cygiwn 1.3.12, the new write permission would show up in the > > cygwin "ls -l" command. In cygwin 1.3.19-1, the write permission is > > not visible in cygwin "ls -l", but if I go to the Explorer, it would > > show the file as writable. > > Originally I thought is was a cache delay problem, but it never > > caught up. > > Rebooting XP does not help either. > > > > > > Did the permission code changed somewhere between cygwin 1.3.12 and > > 1.3.19-1 ? > > It there something I can do to make them sync up again ? > > (Note: I also tried "CYGWIN=ntsec", it does not help). > > Ntsec is ON by default now. Did your /etc/passwd and investigate > CYGWIN=nontsec. > > > Max.
Max and Elfyn. "CYGWIN=nontsec" did the trick Thanks you both for the help. Andrew -- 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/
