On Mar 10 19:28, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > >> (\??\X:\install\x86, 0x800390D0) st_size=0, st_mode=0x4000, st_ino=-197262732544 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > This is the important snippet, but I don't see how this could have been > > different before my patches. The mode is S_IFDIR and 000 permissions. > > I've run the same on Cygwin64 (where I don't use the snapshot yet) and > it does indeed produce the same line. It still correctly determines > that I do have permission to change into (and write in) the directory, > but I don't know how. In that case the stat call is very likely unrelated. There must be some other call involved in perl. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat