Hallo Elisabetta, Am Montag, 18. August 2003 um 17:16 schriebst du:
> Hello. > My problem is about different versions of du.exe that work in a different > way. > Details: > the argument is executing du against a file owned by a different user than > the one running du. > first case: > du <file> > <disk usage> <file> > du --version > GNU fileutils 3.5 > GNU fileutils 4.1 > second case: > du <file> > <file>: Permission denied > du --version > GNU fileutils 3.16 > GNU fileutils 4.0 > In other words, using version 3.16 or 4.0 du fails to execute due to > restricted permissions on the file. What kind of permission makes the 3.16/4.0 versions fail? > What I wonder is why the behaviour changed through all those du.exe > versions and finally what should be the right way of working. Maybe an old 3.16 bug was 'reintroduced by accident' with 4.0? Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
