On Jun 21 09:01, Thomas Wolff wrote: > I had recently reported that an old network installation problem, that had > been resolved meanwhile, reappeared: > https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2015-12/msg00012.html > > As an additional observation, on the same machine, there is also a virtual > machine running Windows XP. From that, I can use setup.exe and seamlessly > update cygwin which is then also available in the Windows 7 host > environment. Running setup.exe from Windows 7 directly still fails with the > described symptoms. > > There must be something weird about interpretation of access rights using > the Windows 7 API. > As an idea, perhaps someone familiar with setup.exe could check whether at > any place access is rejected due to interpretation of access rights without > actually trying the access?
Setup usually doesn't explicitely check access, it only sets ACLs POSIX-like. How does the ACL look like (icacls *and* getfacl output, please) it complains about? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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