On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:31:43PM -0800, David Rothenberger wrote:
It seems that read-only files in Cygwin 1.7 are not truly
read-only. The sequence of steps below shows that "chmod 444 file1"
does not make the file read-only in Cygwin 1.7, while it does in
Cygwin 1.5. It may have something to do with the Read Only DOS
attribute. This is set by Cygwin 1.5 but not by Cygwin 1.7. If I
manually set it for Cygwin 1.7, the file does become read-only.
(This issue was brought to my attention by a failing subversion test
after building for 1.7.)
Hmm. I can duplicate this but this is all Corinna's code so it might
take a while to track down.
It's a pretty serious bug though. Would you be willing to see if this
is a recent 1.7 problem by trying some older DLLs?