Re: [TESTERS needed] New POSIX permission handling

[Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@acslink.net.au>]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 09:20:10PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Steven Penny wrote:
> > Here is the test I ran:
>
> The test I ran here
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-04/msg00186.html
> is now failing again:
>
>     $ cd /cygdrive/c
>
>     $ touch ~/{alpha,bravo}.sh ~+/{charlie,delta}.sh
>
>     $ chmod +x ~/bravo.sh ~+/delta.sh
>
>     $ ls -l --color ~/{alpha,bravo}.sh ~+/{charlie,delta}.sh
>     -rw-rwxr--+ 1 John None 0 May 15 19:12 /cygdrive/c/charlie.sh  (green)
>     -rwxrwxr-x+ 1 John None 0 May 15 19:12 /cygdrive/c/delta.sh    (green)
>     -rw-r--r--  1 John None 0 May 15 19:12 /home/John/alpha.sh
>     -rwxr-xr-x  1 John None 0 May 15 19:12 /home/John/bravo.sh     (green)
>
> Please sort this out. Having ???ls --color??? is pointless if everything is the same
> color.
>
Your results look fine to me. In your original test, charlie.sh was -rw-rw-r--+,
but now it is -rw-rwxr--+ (i.e. it has acquired group execute access). So why
would you not expect it to show in green?

Cheers ... Duncan.

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