Re: cygwin utils can access directory and its contents, but W10 utils claim to have no access, why?

2024-04-02 Thread John Ruckstuhl via Cygwin
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:59 AM John Ruckstuhl wrote: > > Thanks for the replies Brian & Corinna, I learned a lot. > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 1:48 AM Corinna Vinschen > wrote: > > Users in the Administrators group have these privileges in their user > > token.

Re: cygwin utils can access directory and its contents, but W10 utils claim to have no access, why?

2024-01-22 Thread John Ruckstuhl via Cygwin
... State = ... ... SeBackupPrivilege ... Disabled SeRestorePrivilege... Disabled ... C:\> Thanks very much. John Ruckstuhl -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ:

cygwin utils can access directory and its contents, but W10 utils claim to have no access, why?

2024-01-21 Thread John Ruckstuhl via Cygwin
0 files And the second try to delete succeeds C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Local\Temp>del /S /Q _MEI21002 In summary, why is it that Bob the Administrator can Cygwin "rm.exe" to delete these folders without taking ownership, but to delete with Windows utils, he needs to take ownership

Re: Vim gives error message since 8.2.3755-1

2022-07-25 Thread John Ruckstuhl
There was a bug upstream and it has been fixed upstream. I'm confident that eventually it will get to us. Meanwhile, I found that if you simply create an empty ~/.exrc, the bug is avoided. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1969936 Regards, John Ruckstuhl On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at

Re: I discovered https://cygwin.com/donations.html

2017-11-16 Thread John Ruckstuhl
On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 3:51 PM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > On many occasions, I have watched a thread in this forum and thought > "Wow, that was an incredibly technical and civilized response. > I wish I could send so-and-so a coffee, or a 6-pack, or some small > acknowledgement,

I discovered https://cygwin.com/donations.html

2016-12-22 Thread John Ruckstuhl
On many occasions, I have watched a thread in this forum and thought "Wow, that was an incredibly technical and civilized response. I wish I could send so-and-so a coffee, or a 6-pack, or some small acknowledgement, a tip-of-the-hat". In case anyone else has thinks like me... Today I discovered ht

Re: POSIX permission mapping and NULL SIDs

2016-06-28 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Since these emails go to a list, not just Bill, and are archived, the extra detail is added value and appreciated by other people now & in future. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Bill Zissimopoulos wrote: > On 6/28/16, 3:27 AM, "Corinna Vinschen" of corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > > >>>Ok.

Re: can't open cygwin from shortcut

2016-04-23 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Hmmm, that name sounds familiar... (googles "doug mcilroy unix") Yep. Just think of the karma for answering Prof. McIlroy's question... I wish I could :) Regards, John Ruckstuhl Douglas McIlroy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy Wi

Re: cacls combination problem in 1.7.35, merging privs of existing file & privs of process

2015-06-22 Thread John Ruckstuhl
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:41 AM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > > I'm noticing this summer, that whenever I try to edit an existing file with > vi for the first time, the file's permissions change. Could this be a > problem with merging permissions of existing file and

cacls combination problem in 1.7.35, merging privs of existing file & privs of process

2015-06-20 Thread John Ruckstuhl
I'm noticing this summer, that whenever I try to edit an existing file with vi for the first time, the file's permissions change. Could this be a problem with merging permissions of existing file and permissions of the vi process? Original cacls of file try2.txt: try2.txt INTSURG\johnru:(R,W

Re: Very slow Cygwin startup on Windows 7

2015-02-23 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Wow I really hoped to contribute with something that seemed -- to me -- salient... an strace of my 5 minute bash startup under 1.7.34, due to 70+ SLOW lookups w/ exceptions (all 4.0-4.1 seconds). But for the life of me I can't get past the spamfilter. ([main] bash 8308 pwdgrp::fetch_account_from_w

RE: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-22 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Regarding a cygwin 1.7.9 bug w/ acls on network share (bug not present in 1.7.8). Larry wrote: > On 9/15/2011 4:19 PM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > > Meanwhile, thanks for showing a workaround. Other colleagues are affected, > > so > > we will discuss whether we want to sta

RE: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-15 Thread John Ruckstuhl
oo.1054 was not created due to error, zoo.1055 was created despite the warning) So, I'm claiming this is a change with 1.7.9. I'll leave it to others to classify this as a new "bug", "feature", And I'll be interested to see that discussion. Meanwhile, thanks for sh

RE: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-14 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Larry Hall wrote: >On 9/14/2011 4:31 PM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: >> Larry Hall wrote: >>> On 9/14/2011 1:56 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>>> The obvious way to troubleshoot this would be to use a network drive (Z: >>>> for instance) instead of UNC or to

RE: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-14 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Larry Hall wrote: > On 9/14/2011 1:56 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > The obvious way to troubleshoot this would be to use a network drive (Z: > > for instance) instead of UNC or to mount the share and see if that > > works. Naturally it would also make sense to test the latest Cygwin > > snapshot an

RE: cygwin 1.7.9, problem with cygwin1.dll, path_conv::check, has_acls()? (Windows 7)

2011-09-14 Thread John Ruckstuhl
Larry Hall asks for more info: > On 9/13/2011 8:40 PM, John Ruckstuhl wrote: > > I'm trying to create files in the current dir, on a network fileserver. > > What do we know about this fileserver? This required a visit with my friendly IT Team. An HP Proliant DL380G5 running W