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Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 10:28:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir
- References: <44A8437E.7010005@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 2 16:06, Eric Blake wrote:
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> Any reason why this works on cygwin, even though it fails under Linux (as
> required by POSIX)?
>
> $ mkdir unreadable
> $ chmod a-w unreadable
> $ mkdir unreadable/oops
>
> This happened on NTFS, regardless of whether CYGWIN=traverse was set.
Any chance you're running with administrator privileges?
Corinna
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