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Re: /cygdrive permissions problem [failing duplicity backup]


On Mar 19 11:52, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 19/03/2010 11:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar 19 10:35, Jan-Aage Frydenb?-Bruvoll wrote:
> >>
> >
> > The permissions of the underlying directory are not reflected in
> > the fstat API.  We're pretending the cygdrive directory has fixed
> > 0555 permissions because it's a virtual directory.  You could
> > remove the actual directory and cygdrive would still exist.
> >
> >> Fri Mar 19 10:30:03 jan@aeolus:/
> >> $ getfacl.exe  /cygdrive
> >> # file: /cygdrive
> >> # owner: jan
> >> # group: Administrators
> >> user::rwx
> >> group::r-x
> >> other:r-x
> >> mask:rwx
> > 
> > Huh?  How did you do that?
> 
>   Perhaps Jan has a real physical /cygdrive directory shadowing the virtual
> one and there's some inconsistency about when and whether the virtual dir's

If so, it would be really weird.  I have a physical cygdrive as well and
I can't reproduce his observation, except I use a DOS path or a cygdrive
path, like, say

  getfacl C:/cygwin/cygdrive
  getfacl /cygdrive/c/cygwin/cygdrive


Corinna

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