From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5185 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2009 07:41:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 5170 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jan 2009 07:41:03 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (HELO wf-out-1314.google.com) (209.85.200.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:40:58 +0000 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so5160217wfc.20 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.174.8 with SMTP id w8mr698251wfe.76.1232782856197; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:40:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.31? (220-253-3-185.VIC.netspace.net.au [220.253.3.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm5769430wfd.34.2009.01.23.23.40.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:40:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497AC602.6050709@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:14:00 -0000 From: David Billinghurst User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: access() function in 1.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00718.txt.bz2 I am having a problem with the access() function in cygwin-1.7. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38956 $ touch foobar_file $ chmod a-w foobar_file $ cat test_access.c #include #include int main (void) { char *file="foobar_file"; int m = W_OK; printf("access = %d\n",access(file,m)); } $ touch foobar_file $ chmod a-w foobar_file Under cygwin-1.5 $ ./test_access access = -1 Under cygwin-1.7 $ ./test_access.exe access = -1 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/