test -r or -x always return false on an NFS mount?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 14 11:06, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
> On 14.10.20 10:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Actually, not really.  It's weird in fact, given ls(1) shows the
> > desired result.  That would point to a bug in access(2), but there's
> > no special code in access(2) for NFS.  For filesystems not supporting
> > ACLs (FAT, NFS, etc), it calls stat(2) and checks the st_mode bits
> > against the requested access(2) mode based on the uid/gid of the
> > caller, simple as that.
> 
> Hmm, now that you mention it, I just coincidentally found an issue
> with the `_stat` call in Microsoft Windows 2004 update. In the Apache

This is entirely unrelated.  We're talking about Cygwin stat(2),
not msvcrt.dll _stat().  Different source, different call.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer