-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Reini Urban on 3/22/2008 10:48 AM: | The second problem is the +, the special Windows ACL, which should not | be here on a plain new cygwin installation. | POSIX access() doesn't check the additional ACL's, just the underlying | windows calls allow or deny access then. This can be right or this can | be contradictive.
Actually, POSIX access() is allowed to honor the alternate permissions provided by ACLs (ie. report nonzero for access(name,R_OK) even when none of the traditional read bits are set, if some other mechanism like an ACL or being an administrator allows read access to the file), and my understanding is that cygwin's access() does just that. However, there are many apps which just use stat() rather than access(), and thus get misinformation about whether they have access rights because they were basing off of incomplete information. POSIX also states that chmod(2) is supposed to disable any ACLs that allow alternate access. However, there is still a known issue that in cygwin, all directories currently show with a '+' when listed by ls, even when all that is present on the directory is the ACL for default ACLs to be used when creating files in that directory. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkfnEb4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBdmQCfbadO2l1Z2Y07FvhTUbdo/nwv rpgAn3cGaWKkPVyg9Q6GLzjDl4ydPxuf =s2QG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
