2009/8/11 Corinna Vinschen: > On Aug 11 12:44, Reini Urban wrote: >> 2009/8/11 Corinna Vinschen: >> > That might be a good workaround nevertheless. You should just test the >> > list of supplementary groups as well, along these lines: >> >> We already have an ingroup() check in this Perl_cando() function, so >> there is no >> need to write it again. But it is disabled in perl core for this code path. >> See http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/doio.c#l1929 >> It would be: >> if (ingroup(544,effective)) >> return TRUE; /* Administrators read and write anything */ >> but this is simply not true, as under unix. Windows Administrators >> fall under the same ACL restrictions as normal users. So only using >> access() is reliable. > > I don't understand what you're tryin to say. The members of the Admin > group have always write access to files due to the SE_BACKUP_NAME > privilege enabled in Cygwin.
Okay, then the ingroup check should be used. Thanks. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
