Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/06/30/14:51:03
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Korn
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:26
>
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
>
> >> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >>> On the local disk, C:\Documents and Settings\All
> >>> Users\workspace\nitams\x.txt
> >>>
> >>> In wordpad I choose save and I get access denied.
> >> Please report bugs in wordpad to Microsoft, not us.
> (Well, I guess
> >> you did tag it OT!)
> >
> > It is many applications, including Sun's java, wordpad,
> etc... Pretty
> > much everything I have tried except Cygwin apps fail. Since only
> > Cygwin apps work I am asking here.
>
> Bear in mind that files created by Cygwin apps use POSIX
> permission schemes:
> rwx/ugo. This is handled by setting windows access
> permissions on the files.
> If you chmod a file to remove 'w' perms in cygwin, you won't
> be able to overwrite it in windows apps either.
>
> >>> 22:29:45 wordpad.exe:2664 QUERY INFORMATION
> >> C:\Documents and
> >>> Settings\All Users\workspace\nitams\x.txt SUCCESS Attributes: HA
>
> >>> Any ideas where to start on this?
> >> Clear the "hidden" attribute from x.txt?
> >
> > Yes, that and the readonly attribute are clear.
>
> According to your log file above, it has the hidden and
> archive attributes set. I ran a quick test using wordpad to
> edit C:\autoexec.bat, which comes with the hidden attribute
> on by default; wordpad reports permission denied if you try
> and save the file. If you clear the attribute, wordpad saves it ok.
> Cygwin apps don't care about the DOS attributes, only the
> ACLs. So I think you need to double-check.
>
Upon double checking, (I needed to fix the issue and I did not preserve tings so
well in the panic) there are no current hidden attributes set, but windows apps
now can save to the file.
Good to know.
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