if [ -w branching: how to spot a locked USB stick

Fri Jul 13 15:26:00 GMT 2007

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 04:15:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jul 13 08:00, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/13/2007 7:06 AM:
>>>>> Actually, this is a cygwin question.  Bash's [ command only reports what
>>>>> access("/h",W_OK) tells it to report, 
>>>> It's the latter.  The fact that the USB stick is locked doesn't
>>>> mean that the permission bits returned by the OS calls are augmented
>>>> to reflect the fact that the stick is not writable.  All permission
>>>> bits are still intact.  Only when actually trying to write to the device,
>>>> you'll get the Win32 error message equivalent of EROFS.
>>> But POSIX requires access(...,W_OK) to fail with EROFS on a read-only file
>>> system.  Is there any way for cygwin to easily determine this without
>>> actually attempting a write?
>> Not that I'm aware of.  I added this to my TODO list.  However, as
>> usual, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC.
> 
> Why do I see another bullet item for the "Why is cygwin so slow" discussion
> here?

And the answer is "Windows is dumb"? ;-)

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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