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

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Fri Jul 22 02:50:00 GMT 2011


On 7/21/2011 9:07 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> I'm seeing the exact same behavior. I see this on my C drive (I cd'ed to
> /tmp). The drive is:

Weird.  So what are you using?  XP and Cygwin 1.7.9 or something else?


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