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* Re: chmod issue on 3.1.7.
@ 2020-12-25  9:15 Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin) @ 2020-12-25  9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ken Brown; +Cc: cygwin

On 2020-12-24 14:56, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
> Could the problem be that the owner and group are the same?  You can
> do that on unix, but I'm not sure the Windows security model allows
> it.  For example, what happens when you remove permissions of the
> owner kaz while retaining the permissions of the group kaz?  As far as
> Windows is concerned, you're talking about BLACKBOX\kaz in both cases,
> I think.

I have no idea where that came from. All files in the Cygwin 
installation
(/bin, /usr/bin, /lib, ...) are owned by kaz:kaz. Numerically,
197613:197613. The UID and GID are the same number.

I don't see a passwd file any more in current Cygwin, but getpwent 
works:

4$ txr
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 243.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
1> (getpwent)
#S(passwd name "kaz" passwd "*" uid 197613 gid 197613 gecos 
"U-BLACKBOX\\kaz,S-1-5-21-3442361740-4082249206-548862920-1005"
           dir "/home/kaz" shell "/bin/bash")
2> (getpwent)
#S(passwd name "SYSTEM" passwd "*" uid 18 gid 18 gecos "U-NT 
AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM,S-1-5-18"
           dir "/home/SYSTEM" shell "/bin/bash")

I have no clue where this configuration came from. Is there some 
prompting
for these names when a new installation is made?

If nobody else has this problem, I must have done something wrong.

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* chmod issue on 3.1.7.
@ 2020-10-10 16:32 Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin)
  2020-10-10 19:41 ` Ken Brown
  2020-12-24 21:13 ` Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin)
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin) @ 2020-10-10 16:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin

Hi all,

Running this Cygwin on a Windows 10 system:

   0:DESKTOP-K8055OB:~$ uname -a
   CYGWIN_NT-10.0-WOW DESKTOP-K8055OB 3.1.7(0.340/5/3) 2020-08-22 19:03 
i686 Cygwi

When a file is created, and permissions set as follows:

   0:DESKTOP-K8055OB:~$ touch tempfile
   0:DESKTOP-K8055OB:~$ chmod 03777 tempfile
   0:DESKTOP-K8055OB:~$ ls -l tempfile
   -rwsrwsrwt 1 kaz kaz 0 Oct 10 08:59 tempfile

Then "chmod u=" is not able to clear the owner's permissions to nothing:

   0:DESKTOP-K8055OB:~$ chmod u= tempfile
   0:DESKTOP-K8055OB:~$ ls -l tempfile
   -rwxrwsrwt 1 kaz kaz 0 Oct 10 08:59 tempfile

As you can see, it has no effect. The expected value is ----rwsrwt.

I tried both with 64 and 32 bit Cygwin: same deal.

This is not a problem with the chmod utility.  I ran into this as a 
failing
test case against a chmod library function in a programming language.

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/tests/018/chmod.tl

The test cases pass until the "u=", which fails in the same way.
This does not use the chmod utility.

It's an issue with the chmod system call.

This used to work on my older Cygwin installation, which was around 2.5.


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