I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. But I find the following differences between *nix and cygwin on access permissions of 'ls'
Test case: $ mkdir -p dir1/dir2 $ chmod 700 dir1 <switch to a another non-root/non-admin user> $ ls -d dir1 dir1 [both Linux & Cygwin] $ ls dir1 ls: cannot open directory dir1 Permission denied [both Linux & Cygwin] $ ls -d dir1/dir2 ls: cannot access directory dir1/dir2 Permission denied [Linux] dir1/dir2 [Cygwin] No acl's beyond the standard ugo posix permissions are set on either system. The Cygwin user only belongs to the 'None' and 'Users' group. In particular, why is a non-privileged Cygwin user able to look over a blocked directory further into a file tree? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Differences-between-%27ls%27-permissions-*nix-vs-cygwin-tp26280017p26280017.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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