[ -w filename ] returns true when permissions are -r--r--r--

[Reid Thompson]

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:05 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> Is this broken?  Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy?  Or am I missing
> something with my posix/windows file permissions settings
> 
> reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~
> $ ls -rlt afile
> -r--r--r-- 1 reid.thompson Domain Users 6 2011-07-20 14:02 afile
> 
> reid.thompson@ws-jrt ~
> $ if [ -w afile ]; then   echo " file is writeable"; else   echo " file
> is not writeable"; fi
>  file is writeable
> 

$ uname -r
1.7.7(0.230/5/3)



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