From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4949 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2009 22:47:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 4940 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Jan 2009 22:47:57 -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) (209.85.200.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:47:53 +0000 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so5370760wfc.20 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:47:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.103.11 with SMTP id a11mr5012525wfc.208.1232837271222; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:47:51 -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 30sm18668307wfg.5.2009.01.24.14.47.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:47:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497B9A91.8040003@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:55:00 -0000 From: David Billinghurst User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: access() function in 1.7 References: <497AC602.6050709@gmail.com> <20090124091349.GB17576@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090124091349.GB17576@calimero.vinschen.de> 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/msg00725.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 24 18:40, David Billinghurst wrote: >> I am having a problem with the access() function in cygwin-1.7. >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38956 >> [...] >> Under cygwin-1.5 >> $ ./test_access >> access = -1 >> >> Under cygwin-1.7 >> $ ./test_access.exe >> access = -1 > > I assume you mean "access = 0" under 1.7. If that's what you see, the > test probably works as designed. You're running the test under an > administrative account. Admin accounts have always the right to write, > same as under Linux. > > > Corinna > The account does have Local Administrator rights. Thank you for the explanation. David -- 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/