From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ls shows different permissions for the same file
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5050A56B.6090704@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AB5C244567184949B9C73F32BBC4703704DD31C4@BL2PRD0410MB373.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
On 9/12/2012 8:20 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote:
> ls reports different permissions for the same file, depending on whether I provide a Windows-form path or a UNIX-form path:
>
> $ /bin/ls -ldi c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
> 7318349394635879 drwxrwxrwx+ 1 tboemker Domain Users 0 Sep 12 07:56 /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
> 7318349394635879 drwxr-xr-x 1 tboemker Domain Users 0 Sep 12 07:56 c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
>
> $ /bin/ls --version
> ls (GNU coreutils) 8.15
> Packaged by Cygwin (8.15-1)
> ...
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug?
No, no bug. If you specify the POSIX path, you get full POSIX permission
emulation. If you provide Windows paths (or the mount point under which
the file in question lives is mounted with the 'noacl' option), you get
default, hard-coded POSIX permissions.
--
Larry
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>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-12 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-12 12:47 Boemker, Tim
2012-09-12 17:40 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2012-09-12 19:05 Boemker, Tim
2012-09-13 0:41 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2012-09-13 14:30 ` Boemker, Tim
2012-09-13 23:57 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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