On Jul 2 16:06, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Any reason why this works on cygwin, even though it fails under Linux (as > required by POSIX)? > > $ mkdir unreadable > $ chmod a-w unreadable > $ mkdir unreadable/oops > > This happened on NTFS, regardless of whether CYGWIN=traverse was set.
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