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Subject: "My Documents" directory not listed as writable?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:11:45 -0000
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From: "John Cooper" <John DOT Cooper AT eu DOT citrix DOT com>
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[I'm using Cygwin 1.5.24-2 on Windows XP and Vista]

Does anyone know why, by default, the "My Documents" directory is not
listed as writable? :
  $ ls -ld $USERPROFILE/My\ Documents
  dr-x------+ 22 John None 0 Oct 20 18:26 C:\Documents and
Settings\John/My Documents/

.. even though it actually is writable:

  $ touch $USERPROFILE/My\ Documents/foo
  $

This occurs on both my work and home machines; in the former case I log
in as a domain user but in the latter case the machine is just in a
workgroup.

This strangeness causes the zsh initialization scripts to fail to create
a .zcompdump file (when the HOME env var is set to the "My Documents"
directory), which in turn causes each zsh invocation to be much slower
than it should be. The "cacls" command indicates that the directory is
writable:
http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2007/msg01023.html

Thanks,

John.

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