From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin AF_UNIX emulation
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141020104440.GB3174@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544281A1.1050203@t-online.de>
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On Oct 18 17:05, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > SE_CHANGE_NOTIFY_NAME
> >
> > Required to receive notifications of changes to files or
> > directories. This privilege also causes the system to skip all
> > traversal access checks. It is enabled by default for all users.
> >
> > User Right: Bypass traverse checking.
>
> An unexpected "feature", IMO.
>
> Hmm.... after removing this privilege, Cygwin returns garbage stat() info,
> for any path below the 'forbidden directory':
>
> $ uname -srvm
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 1.7.33s(0.278/5/3) 20141017 14:39:49 i686
>
> $ cd /var/spool/postfix/
>
> $ ls -ld private
> drwx------+ 1 postfix none 0 Oct 18 16:39 private
>
> $ ls -l private
> ls: cannot open directory private: Permission denied
>
> $ ls -l private/smtp
> srw-rw-rw- 1 postfix none 0 Oct 18 16:39 private/smtp
>
> $ cygdrop -p ChangeNotify ls -l private/smtp
> -rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 6991943424855812584 Jun 23 1909
> private/smtp
>
> $ ls -l private/no/such/path
> ls: cannot access private/no/such/path: No such file or directory
>
> $ cygdrop -p ChangeNotify ls -l private/no/such/path
> -rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 6991943424855812584 Jun 23 1909
> private/no/such/path
That should work better now. I just applied a patch to CVS.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 21:34 Christian Franke
2014-10-17 11:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-17 19:29 ` Christian Franke
2014-10-18 10:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-10-18 15:05 ` Christian Franke
2014-10-20 10:44 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-10-20 10:44 ` Corinna Vinschen
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