mkdir inside unwritable dir

[Corinna Vinschen]

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)?
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> $ mkdir unreadable
> $ chmod a-w unreadable
> $ mkdir unreadable/oops
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> This happened on NTFS, regardless of whether CYGWIN=traverse was set.

Any chance you're running with administrator privileges?


Corinna

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