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Re: Permission denied on a windows share


Robert Collins wrote:
IIRC cygwin reports based on the NTFS permission, but actually tries before
failing... but I suspect it's not consistent across the board on this.
ah..., I'm not sure I get it there. Are you saying that if NTFS says that one doesn't have access to a file, then cygwin will still try to access it and then return failure if the attempt didn't succeed? Am I understanding correctly?
If so, then why does cygwin fails on the attempt when Notepad succeed?

Or maybe you mean that most of the time there is an attempt, but for whatever reason, the "open(.., O_WRONLY)", or whatever "cp" and "cat" are using, doesn't try?

Jehan




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