[MinGW-dvlpr] [MSYS] stat returned file permissions

[Max T. W. <ma...@mt...>]

I was going over the archive on this mailing list and thinking
about some of the problems I'm having with MSYS when I noticed
an old discussion of fstat (or whatever it's called).

The specific problem mentioned was that the access reported was
always world and group readable.

This is a reasonable first take solution, but on a system like
the older versions of windows without the concept of groups
or individual users in the file system, this is really
"don't care" information.  An alternate, and probably more
practical, is to report 'set uid' and 'set gid' on any file
or directory and report no access for 'group' and 'world'.
This would NOT apply to newer windows implementations where
acls are used to implement world and group access modes.

ma...@mt...