This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Cygwin 1.7.1 breaks git on netapp shared drives


On Mar 23 16:37, Chris Idou wrote:
> 
> 
> After a heck of lot of screwing around, I got this mount point stuff working. Now when I create files under cygwin they have the same permissions profile as they do when I create them under windows.
> 
> BUT...
> 
> git doesn't work still. It fails with the exact same error of "unable to set permission". How do the cygwin APIs work under noacl? They shouldn't ever return error code should they?

They should.  There's the one case in which you're trying something like
chmod 444.  Under noacl conditions this sets the DOS R/O attribute.  If
that fails, the call fails.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]