Permission denied on a windows share

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Jehan
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 2:15 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Permission denied on a windows share
> 
> 
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > IIRC cygwin reports based on the NTFS permission, but 
> actually tries before
> > failing... but I suspect it's not consistent across the 
> board on this.
> 
> ah..., I'm not sure I get it there. Are you saying that if NTFS says 
> that one doesn't have access to a file, then cygwin will still try to 
> access it and then return failure if the attempt didn't succeed? Am I 
> understanding correctly?
> If so, then why does cygwin fails on the attempt when Notepad succeed?

> Or maybe you mean that most of the time there is an attempt, but for 
> whatever reason, the "open(.., O_WRONLY)", or whatever "cp" and "cat" 
> are using, doesn't try?

I'm really saying you need to check the code. OR the strace log, or
both.

Rob


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