Re: [Mingw-users] Fwd: Stupid Vista-64 tricks

[Tuomo L. <dj...@ik...>]

Georg Nikodym wrote:
> 
> On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:40, Tuomo Latto wrote:
> 
>> As to your problem, I have no idea why cygwin would see them differently.
>> Do all executables have the "archive" bit set by default?
> 
> I'm very curious what the significance of the archive bit is expected to
> be.

Well, maybe I should have explained a bit further that this was a question
meant for everybody. No actual expectations here. Sorry to mislead you.
I've never really used cygwin, so I have no idea how the permissions work
there. I was sort of wondering out loud if that might play a part,
file attributes as they are.


> I've chased this issue down further and the plot thickens a bit.
> 
> My test program may or may not work as expected depending the directory
> in which it's run.  Further digging shows that if cygwin creates the
> directory, my test works.  If cmd.exe or some other program create the
> directory, then the test fails.
> 
> I've been fooling around with cygwin getfacl/setfacl since that's where
> the difference appears to be...

I wonder if this helps:
http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html

> It's looking definitely like this is not really a mingw problem at all.

Well, yes. If the executable works in plain Windows, the fault must lie
within Cygwin.


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Tuomo

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