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Re: discrepancy btw. Cygwin 32 & 64 wrt file permissions
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Will Parsons <gyliamos at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 06:02:01 +0300
- Subject: Re: discrepancy btw. Cygwin 32 & 64 wrt file permissions
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Greetings, Will Parsons!
> I've been using Cygwin for some time now, but recently decided to try
> a parallel installation of Cygwin 64 on the same machine. I've
> noticed a strange discrepancy between how Cygwin 32 & 64 report file
> permissions:
> (32-bit)
> % uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW sothis 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:07 i686 Cygwin
> % touch x
> % chmod a-w x
> % ls -l x
> -r--r--r-- 1 william None 0 Mar 5 17:41 x
> % ls -ln x
> -r--r--r-- 1 197608 197121 0 Mar 5 17:41 x
> (64-bits)
> % uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 sothis 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 12:09 x86_64 Cygwin
> % ls -l x
> -rw-r--r-- 1 william None 0 Mar 5 17:41 x
> % ls -ln x
> -rw-r--r-- 1 197608 197121 0 Mar 5 17:41 x
> Why does 64-bit Cygwin have a different idea of whether the file is
> writable?
Because they get different mount options? That would've been my first guess.
I could be wrong, though.
Either way,
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 06.03.2015, <06:00>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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