On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Eric Tiffany wrote:
> I encountered a perplexing situation with file permissions. I am running
> cygwin 1.3.20 and bash 2.05b.0(8).
>
> I have an executable with the following permissions:
>
> $ ls -ln /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
>
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 544 18 24672 Sep 30 03:08
> /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
>
> And here is my user info:
>
> $ id
>
> uid=1006(Eric Tiffany) gid=513(None)
> groups=513(None),544(Administrators),545(Users)
>
> If I run getfacl, I see the following:
>
> $ getfacl.exe -a /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
> getfacl.exe -a /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
> # file: /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java
> # owner: Administrators
> # group: SYSTEM
> user::rwx
> group::rwx
> group:Users:r-x
> mask:rwx
> other:---
>
> I can execute the file from the command line.
>
> However, if I say 'test -x /c/j2sdk1.4.1_01/bin/java' in a script, it
> returns false. This seems wrong just based on the fact that I actually can
> exec the file. However, it also seems to contradict the permissions set for
> the file, if I am interpreting the results of getfacl correctly.
>
> Is this a bug?
Yes. The fix is on the way, though...
Igor
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk!
-- /usr/games/fortune
--
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/
