GNU bug report logs - #10257
23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)

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Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>

Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 18:25:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.3+1-4

Fixed in version 24.0.93

Done: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Cc: 10257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA, jari.aalto <at> cante.net
Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:46:39 +0200

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:37:30 -0500
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
> CC: 10257 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jari.aalto <at> cante.net,
>         Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> 
> Jari has confirmed in private email that it works, but he has proposed 
> making it slightly more permissive and having check_writable return 
> success if either UID or GID is -1.  The rationale is the same as 
> before:  If euidaccess returns failure but either UID or GID is -1, then 
> the result of euidaccess is unreliable.  The revised patch is below.
> 
> Eli, do you see any problem with this extra permissiveness?

No, I was thinking along the same lines.
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