All, I've noticed on 2 different machines that if I copy (cp) a file I can read with cygwin, I don't have permission to read the copy.
I don't recall that happening in that past. If this was Linux I would feel comfortable looking at umask, etc. to figure out what is going on. With cygwin I'm at a loss. If someone can tell me what I have configured wrong, I'd really appreciate it. fyi: I have a very vanilla install of cygwin on both machines. I've been using cygwin for many years and never noticed this before. It maybe an issue unique to Excel. Here's a scenario I just went through: 1) Use Excel (2010 or 2013) to create a simple 2 column, 3 row table and use "Save As" to save it as a CSV file name "Book1.csv" 2) verify it can be read via cygwin $ cat Book1.csv field1,field2 1,2 3,4 3) use cp to make a copy cp Book1.csv fail.csv 4) try to read the copy and fail $ cat fail.csv cat: fail.csv: Permission denied 5) Verify the owner / UID / perms are the same $ ls -l Book1.csv fail.csv ----rwx---+ 1 GAF None 25 Sep 23 18:45 Book1.csv ----rwx---+ 1 GAF None 25 Sep 23 18:46 fail.csv $ ls -ln Book1.csv fail.csv ----rwx---+ 1 1006 513 25 Sep 23 18:45 Book1.csv ----rwx---+ 1 1006 513 25 Sep 23 18:46 fail.csv They are, but there are extended attributes hiding behind the + sign. 6) Force the permissions and test again $ chmod +rw fail.csv $ cat fail.csv field1,field2 1,2 3,4 ====================== Bewildered, Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- 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
