From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, jari.aalto@cante.net
Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:10:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Raob0-0001RU-If@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE89CAB.8080301@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:55:07 -0500)
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:55:07 -0500
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> CC: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
>
> As I understand it, this is a filesystem problem: Samba returns a
> fake SID to Windows, so Cygwin can't determine the correct uid/gid.
> Jari, you were already told on the Cygwin list how to work around
> this problem. Why not just do it?
Either that, or make euidaccess/check_writable return success in such
cases. After all, it is well known that on Windows the equivalent of
euidaccess (AccessCheck and its ilk) is even more of an approximation
than on Posix, due to implicit access rights granted through
membership in multiple user groups.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 18:23 bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive) Jari Aalto
2011-12-09 20:33 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-10 9:58 ` jaalto
2011-12-13 12:18 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-13 14:00 ` jari
2011-12-13 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-13 15:12 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-13 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 20:16 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 2:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-14 3:27 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 8:01 ` Jari Aalto
2011-12-14 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 12:24 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 12:55 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-12-14 14:19 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 14:47 ` jari
2011-12-14 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 17:57 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 2:43 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 2:53 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 3:19 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 14:42 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-16 19:37 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-16 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-16 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-17 17:08 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 14:15 ` jari
2011-12-14 14:29 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 14:43 ` jari
2011-12-14 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 17:23 ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-13 16:26 ` jari
2011-12-13 16:52 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-13 17:48 ` jari
2011-12-13 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-13 18:05 ` jari
2011-12-13 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 14:44 ` Jason Rumney
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