In what way is /cygdrive special WRT to permissions?

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Oct 6 08:48:00 GMT 2010


On Oct  5 15:40, Andy Hall wrote:
> If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in /etc/fstab
> 
> F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0
> 
> mount shows
> 
> $ mount
> C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto)
> C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto)
> F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,noacl)
> C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> 
> And ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows
> 
> $ ls -l /cygdrive/f
> total 2048
> drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds
> drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases
> [...]
> Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but not
> to /repos1?

That's a restriction of the cygdrive prefix handling.  You can't
override the cygdrive mount options for a single drive.  It's an
all or nothing thingy.  I guess it would help to refuse such paths
in /etc/fstab or mount(1), or at least improve the documentation,
but, well, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI.


Corinna

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