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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


Greetings, Achim Gratz!

> 2. I use a few volumes on NetApp filers that have security set up so
> that you can't change attributes.  That means POSIX permissions are
> always listed as "0000".

That seems like a bug elsewhere. Being able to change permissions shouldn't
restrict you from requesting them.

> I uausally mount these noacl, but when I access them via their UNC path (for
> instance when Windows runs a script from a CWD on that volume, then Perl
> reports false for file test operators (-x, -w) other than existence.

You can change that with cygdrive prefix options.
Adjust your fstab line for it to include noacl, and operations on UNC paths
should run better, according to your setup.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 25.02.2014, <22:45>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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