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Subject: Re: Nasty permissions / pathing bug on 1.7
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On Dec  1 17:42, Dave Korn wrote:
> Steven Hartland wrote:
> > Just to be 100% clear its not the fact that the script errors, its the fact
> >  that the permissions after the initial DOS pathed chmod doesn't actually 
> > set the permissions correctly and doesn't throw any error.
> 
>   Also, it's not just perl, you can reproduce it in a shell:
> 
> > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe
> > ls: cannot access /tmp/test.exe: No such file or directory
> > 
> > $ touch /tmp/test.exe
> > 
> > $ ls -l /tmp/test.exe
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 DKAdmin None 0 2009-12-01 17:36 /tmp/test.exe
> > 
> > $ cygpath -w /tmp/test.exe
> > F:\cygwin-1.7\tmp\test.exe
> > 
> > $ chmod 777 'F:/cygwin-1.7/tmp/test.exe'
> > 
> > $ echo $?
> > 0

That's by design.  When you use Win32 paths, instead of POSIX paths,
you will get Win32 default permission handling.  Or, in other words,
for all DOS paths the mount mode is "noacl".


Corinna

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