On Aug 10 17:19, Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > Hi, > > $ echo foo >test.txt > $ chmod 0444 test.txt > $ echo bar >test.txt > > This succeeds, even though the file is readonly, and permissions don't > allow writing to the file. What's even stranger is that other programs > (i.e. Notepad and other editors) can't write to this file, because > there are no writing permissions on the file. How does cygwin 1.7 > manages to bypass NT permissions in this case? > > Currently this breaks ExtUtils::MakeMaker, because it expects readonly > files not to be writable and test fails.
That's a bug in your testsuite. I assume you're running the tests as administrator, right? Administrators have the right to write to all files, even R/O files, according to POSIX rules. Your test would fail on Linux as well, if you're running it as root. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
