On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:10:35PM -0500, 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?
or a feature? I know of no POSIX call that can reliably detect that situation. access() on Cygwin will bend POSIX a little and do it. So, as Igor wrote, this issue will be fixed but it will be necessary to also patch /bin/test and bash. Pierre -- 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/
