Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: bug in path.cc Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:19:03 -0400 Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3D2C6C87.10004@hekimian.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026321496 24794 206.205.138.10 (10 Jul 2002 17:18:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:18:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en This code in winsup/cygwin/path.cc looks a little suspicious: /* Check for shortcut as symlink condition. */ if (win32_name.has_attribute (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY)) { int len = strlen (win32_name); if (len > 4 && strcasematch ((char *) win32_name + len - 4, ".lnk")) SetFileAttributes (win32_name, (DWORD) win32_name & ~FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY); } The second argument to SetFileAttributes should be using a field in win32_name, not win32_name itself, seems like. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/