On a offtopic note(well for the list at least)
perl -e "print chmod 0777 'test.txt'"
on ntfs
works under cygwin
but fails under strawberry.
Is this true of other win32 dists?
I dont have activestate loaded at the moment.
This isnt really important because I worked around the problem by using
Win32::FileSecurity and setting the ntfs acl directly.
So here is the test:
C:\scripts>cat > test.txt
^Z
C:\scripts>cacls test.txt
C:\scripts\test.txt BUILTIN\Administrators:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
DAVISRS\bob:F
BUILTIN\Users:R
C:\scripts>perl -e "print chmod 0777, 'test.txt'"
1
C:\scripts>cacls test.txt
C:\scripts\test.txt BUILTIN\Administrators:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
DAVISRS\bob:F
BUILTIN\Users:R
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So no change. Now the cygwin chmod:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/c/scripts$ perl -e "print chmod 0777, 'test.txt'"
1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/c/scripts$ cacls test.txt
c:\scripts\test.txt DAVISRS\bob:(special access:)
STANDARD_RIGHTS_ALL
DELETE
READ_CONTROL
WRITE_DAC
WRITE_OWNER
SYNCHRONIZE
STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_WRITE
FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_WRITE_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES
FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES
DAVISRS\None:(special access:)
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_WRITE
FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_WRITE_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES
FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES
Everyone:(special access:)
READ_CONTROL
SYNCHRONIZE
FILE_GENERIC_READ
FILE_GENERIC_WRITE
FILE_GENERIC_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_DATA
FILE_WRITE_DATA
FILE_APPEND_DATA
FILE_READ_EA
FILE_WRITE_EA
FILE_EXECUTE
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES
FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES
BUILTIN\Administrators:F
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F
BUILTIN\Users:R
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/c/scripts$ ls -l test.txt
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 bob None 0 May 29 00:27 test.txt
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Also the cygwin ls -l for good measure.
It looks like cygwin perl uses the mode handling of cygwin which
basically does what you want which is to allow other people access to
your files. Other people are like the local system account which all
services run under.
bob
