On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Corinna Vinschen<corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com> wrote: > That's a bug in perl. There are other OSes out there which have > root-like permissions for non-0 uids. Perl should use the access() > function to check for read/write/execute permissions, which always > returns the correct result independent of the uid of the current user.
Ah, so it is actually possible on other OSes, I didn't know that. Then maybe you're right. Thanks for clarifying. -- 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
