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Re: ls shows different permissions for the same file


On 9/12/2012 8:20 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote:
ls reports different permissions for the same file, depending on whether I provide a Windows-form path or a UNIX-form path:

$ /bin/ls -ldi c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
7318349394635879 drwxrwxrwx+ 1 tboemker Domain Users 0 Sep 12 07:56 /cygdrive/c/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf
7318349394635879 drwxr-xr-x  1 tboemker Domain Users 0 Sep 12 07:56 c:/apps/amq-versions/amq.12.1.0-RC42/conf

$ /bin/ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 8.15
Packaged by Cygwin (8.15-1)
...

Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

No, no bug. If you specify the POSIX path, you get full POSIX permission emulation. If you provide Windows paths (or the mount point under which the file in question lives is mounted with the 'noacl' option), you get default, hard-coded POSIX permissions.

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