On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 10:10:56AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>This looks pretty much like a band-aid. I can see the use for checking
>>the last error code, but shouldn't Cygwin opt for safety and not assume
>>ACLs? Also, if there's no right to read a remote drive, there might be
>>a good reason for that, which doesn't necessarily mean the drive has
>>acls.
>>
>>After all, the effect of chmod -r can be reverted with Windows own
>>means.
>
>Background: I noticed all of that when testing the
>SetCurrentDirectory("c:\\"). Took me a while to understand why chmod
>stopped working. On XP HOME there is no security gui, so I had to use
>cacls. Not nice.
Are you saying this is somehow a side-effect of
SetCurrentDirectory("c:\\") in exit()? I can't imagine how that change
could cause this behavior.
cgf
