grep 2.4 and permission denied

[Jay Bromley <jaywb at pacbell dot net>]

Hello again,

I recently installed a cygwin 1.1.0 and find it is great (thanks to those who have made this possible, it makes working in the M$ world bearable.) I am having some oddness related (I believe) to how cygwin interacts with NTFS.

My problem started when I wanted a recursive grep (yeah, I know about find | xargs grep foo) program. I downloaded the latest grep from ftp.gnu.org, did ./configure and then make from the top level grep-2.4 directory and everything worked great. The build succeeded, when I tried make check all 8 tests were passed.

The problem is when I do grep --recursive foo I get a permission denied message for each subdirectory of the current directory. I.e.:

[jay@YEMAYA grep-2.4] grep --recursive CONTEXT_DEBUGGER *
grep: bootstrap: Permission denied
grep: djgpp: Permission denied
(and so on for each and every subdir)...

Grep works fine non-recursively. I have set up both /etc/group (mkgroup -l > group) and /etc/passwd (mkpasswd -l > passwd). The directory in question looks like (minus non-directories):

drwxr-xr-x   6 jay      None        81920 May  5 12:35 bfd/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jay      None        20480 Apr  7  1999 config/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None         4096 May  5 12:33 etc/
drwxr-xr-x  12 jay      None       114688 May  5 12:36 gdb/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None            0 May  5 12:29 i686-pc-cygwin32/
drwxr-xr-x   9 jay      None         8192 Apr  7  1999 include/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None        12288 May  5 12:33 intl/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jay      None        24576 May  5 12:33 libiberty/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None         8192 May  5 12:35 mmalloc/
drwxr-xr-x   4 jay      None        24576 May  5 12:35 opcodes/
drwxr-xr-x   6 jay      None        20480 May  5 12:35 readline/
drwxr-xr-x  21 jay      None         4096 May  5 12:32 sim/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jay      None         4096 Apr  7  1999 texinfo/
drwxr-xr-x   7 jay      None         4096 May  5 12:33 utils/

One curiousity is trying to chown jay.Users * changed nothing.

Also, I am curious as to what setting the CYGWIN=ntsec environment setting really does. I haven't been able to find too much about this. I would appreciate any pointers about how permissions work in cygwin.

Thanks and regards,
Jay Bromley