RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-18 Thread Andy Hall
One final note on this: At Jeremy's suggestion, I tried changing the way /cygdrive is mounted. As Administrator I changed /etc/fstab to read //vega/repository /repos smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,noacl,user 0 0 Mount now shows administra...@taurus ~ $ mount //vega/repo

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Jeremy Bopp
On 10/6/2010 4:38 PM, Andy Hall wrote: > There is no doubt that this behavior changed from 1.5 to 1.7. The instant I > upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7.7, build scripts that test for the abilty to write > to the directories in F: instantly started reporting the directories were > not writeable using test

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Hall
There is no doubt that this behavior changed from 1.5 to 1.7. The instant I upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7.7, build scripts that test for the abilty to write to the directories in F: instantly started reporting the directories were not writeable using test -w, yet you can still create and write files v

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Raman Gupta
On 10/06/2010 04:42 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 6 13:19, Andy Hall wrote: >> Notice that the test -w /cygdrive/f/builds reports that /cygdrive/f/builds >> is not writeable, yet you can create and write files in /cygdrive/f/builds! >> THIS IS INCONSTENT BEHAVIOR. Cygwin 1.5 did not have t

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 6 13:19, Andy Hall wrote: > Notice that the test -w /cygdrive/f/builds reports that /cygdrive/f/builds > is not writeable, yet you can create and write files in /cygdrive/f/builds! > THIS IS INCONSTENT BEHAVIOR. Cygwin 1.5 did not have this behavior. I somehow doubt that. I'm just not su

RE: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Andy Hall
Corinna - Thanks for the reply and clarification. I have made the obvious change in my mounts to get around this problem. However, there has been a change in behavior between 1.5 and 1.7. I have 1.7.7 installed on Windows Server 2003 SP2. The mount table shows $ mount //vega/repository on /

Re: In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-06 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Oct 5 15:40, Andy Hall wrote: > If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab > > F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 > > mount shows > > $ mount > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > C:/cygwin

In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

2010-10-05 Thread Andy Hall
I have a vanilla 1.7.7 installation on Windows XP Professional which is a standalone machine not in a domain. The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files have been refreshed from scratch. The system has a remote file system (Samba) mounted as F: via the normal Windows mechanism for mapping network dri