Re: [BUG 1.7] Read-only files are not.

[David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>]

On 12/31/2008 3:58 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly
>> read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1"
>> does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in
>> Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read Only DOS
>> attribute. This is set by Cygwin 1.5 but not by Cygwin 1.7. If I
>> manually set it for Cygwin 1.7, the file does become read-only.
>>
>> (This issue was brought to my attention by a failing subversion test
>> after building for 1.7.)
> 
> Hmm.  I can duplicate this but this is all Corinna's code so it might
> take a while to track down.
> 
> It's a pretty serious bug though.  Would you be willing to see if this
> is a recent 1.7 problem by trying some older DLLs?

Apparently it is an old problem (if indeed it is a problem and not 
intentional as Eric suggests). The 2008-08-01 does not have the 
"problem" while 2008-08-17 does. 08-01 sets the read-only DOS attribute 
while 08-17 does not.

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