Re: "test" producing unexpected results after "chmod"

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Am 23.12.2018 um 06:59 schrieb Steven Penny:
> With Linux, these commands produce expected results:
>
>     $ cd /tmp
>     $ touch alpha.txt
>     $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
>     0
>     $ chmod -r alpha.txt
>     $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
>     1
>     $ chmod +r alpha.txt
>     $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
>     0
>
> However with Cygwin, unexpected results are produced:
>
>     $ cd /tmp
>     $ touch alpha.txt
>     $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
>     0
>     $ chmod -r alpha.txt
>     $ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
>     0
>
> It seems Cygwin is not able to produce non-readable files.

you are missing the point that the Windows filesystem
has additional ACL permission as indicated by the "+"
in the ls output.
If you remove those permissions the test case replicate
Linux results.


$ mkdir pippo

$ ls -l | grep pippo
drwx------+ 1 Marco Kein    0 Dec 23 07:03 pippo
          ^ ACL additional permissions


$ getfacl pippo/
# file: pippo/
# owner: Marco
# group: Kein
user::rwx
group::---
other::---
default:user::rwx
default:group::r-x
default:other::r-x

$ setfacl -k pippo

$ ls -l |grep pippo
drwx------  1 Marco Kein    0 Dec 23 07:05 pippo

$ getfacl pippo/
# file: pippo/
# owner: Marco
# group: Kein
user::rwx
group::---
other::---


$ cd pippo
$ touch alpha.txt
$ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
0

$ chmod -r alpha.txt
$ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
1

$ chmod +r alpha.txt
$ test -r alpha.txt; echo "$?"
0

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