Re: Permission Problems

[Dave Caswell <dave.caswell@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA
<tmacchant2@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> From: Dave Caswell
>> To: cygwin
>            > Cc:
>> Date: 2016/4/25, Mon 09:29
>> Subject: Permission Problems
>>
>>T his is a followup to: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2016-03/msg00345.html
>>
>> To recap, making three nested directories  on a non-C drive produces a
>> third level which is unusable.
>>
>> davec@MERCURYWIN ~/python
>> $ rm -rf g1
>> davec@MERCURYWIN ~/python
>> $ mkdir g1 g1/g2 g1/g2/g3
>> davec@MERCURYWIN ~/python
>> $ ls -la g1 g1/g2 g1/g2/g3
>> g1:
>> total 12
>> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 davec None 0 Mar 16 20:23 ./
>> drwxrwx---+ 1 davec Users 0 Mar 16 20:23 ../
>> drwsrwsr-t+ 1 davec None 0 Mar 16 20:23 g2/
>> g1/g2:
>> total 0
>> drwsrwsr-t+ 1 davec None 0 Mar 16 20:23 ./
>> drwxrwxr-x+ 1 davec None 0 Mar 16 20:23 ../
>> d--Srws--T+ 1 davec None 0 Mar 16 20:23 g3/
>> ls: cannot open directory 'g1/g2/g3': Permission denied
>>
>> The problem went away with Cygwin 2.5.0-0.7 but is back with 2.5.1-1,
>> and goes away when I downgrade back to 2.5.0-1
>>
>> More info:  I tested on a couple of external drives and things worked
>> properly there.   Can I have screwed up the permissions on my D drive
>> so that cygwin gets confused but Windows still works?
>>
>> thanks
>>
> Perhaps workaround is to use the beloe
> $ cygstart --action=runas (cygwin command)
>
> In your case,
> $ cygstart --action=runas ls -la g1 g1/g2 g1/g2/g3
> Tatsuro

The problem is the creation of a directory (or file) with a mangled
ACL..  at least windows isn't capable of dealing with the directory
either.

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