This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Permission Problems
- From: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <tmacchant2 at yahoo dot co dot jp>
- To: Dave Caswell <dave dot caswell at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:30:41 +0900 (JST)
- Subject: Re: Permission Problems
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <CAG2dRtGFfj8cTefVhwx+fgAxArEurBbj=v8W44VEPZdto2aVRQ at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <matsuoka at nuce dot nagoya-u dot ac dot jp>
> 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
--
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