This is the mail archive of the cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project. See the Cygwin
home page for more information.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
[Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Re: [HELP] stat(), file permission, r/w access : i'm LOST :(
At 16:38 01/03/99 -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>This is a known bug.
Arghh.
>testing for file permissions will not return "yes"
>unless that permission is given to everyone. This may be related to the
>fact that you are the "Administrator" (see below).
>544 is the "Administrator" group, which is used as the UID of everyone in
>that group.
But shall be used as GID instead.
> This has been discussed many times on this list and is an NTism.
Is there a workaround ? I mean, if this is a know bug, is there a way to
fix it in the cygwin sources ?
Thanks for your help
______________________________________________________________
Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/
--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com