-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Schwab on 12/11/2007 1:13 PM: > > You need write access to the containing directory when you want to > remove a file. That's how permissions work in Unix since day one.
It doesn't help that Windows behaves differently - by default, Windows allows non-root owners to delete files from unwritable directories (also known as traverse bypass processing, since it bypasses the permissions check on the directories traversed to reach the final file). And even though this default can be changed with proper ACLs, several Windows programs assume this extended deletion privilege is universal, and choke when POSIX-style ACLs are enforced. Several tests in the coreutils testsuite fail on cygwin when CYGWIN=traverse is not set in the environment, because of this root-like ability to delete more than what the Unix permissions allow. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHXz7484KuGfSFAYARAmLZAKCNhp9QBs6S8ANW4EDUsxOTrYPGSACg1DiB 6/9bpTmK0dfhhgmwFQrMSJ8= =gK3B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
