Corinna - Thanks for the reply and clarification. I have made the obvious change in my mounts to get around this problem. However, there has been a change in behavior between 1.5 and 1.7. I have 1.7.7 installed on Windows Server 2003 SP2.
The mount table shows $ mount //vega/repository on /repos type smbfs (binary,noacl) C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) D: on /cygdrive/d type iso9660 (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) H: on /cygdrive/h type smbfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) F: also happens to be mapped to //vega/repository via the normal Windows mechanisms. When signed on to the Administrator account you have: administra...@taurus ~ $ ls -l /repos total 2048 drwxr-xr-x 36 Administrator None 0 2010-10-04 19:30 builds drwxr-xr-x 17 Administrator None 0 2010-10-04 18:23 releases administra...@taurus ~ $ test -w /repos/builds && echo writeable writeable administra...@taurus ~ $ ls -l /cygdrive/f total 2048 drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 19:30 builds drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 18:23 releases administra...@taurus ~ $ test -w /repos/builds && echo writeable Writeable When logged on as the non-admistrative user build you have: bu...@taurus ~ $ ls -l /repos total 2048 drwxr-xr-x 36 build None 0 2010-10-04 19:30 builds drwxr-xr-x 17 build None 0 2010-10-04 18:23 releases bu...@taurus ~ $ test -w /repos/builds && echo writeable writeable bu...@taurus ~ $ ls -l /cygdrive/f total 2048 drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 19:30 builds drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 18:23 releases bu...@taurus ~ $ test -w /cygdrive/f/builds && echo writeable bu...@taurus ~ $ echo test >/cygdrive/f/builds/zap bu...@taurus ~ $ ls -l /cygdrive/f/builds/zap -rwxrwxr-x 1 ???????? ???????? 5 2010-10-06 16:11 /cygdrive/f/builds/zap Notice that the test -w /cygdrive/f/builds reports that /cygdrive/f/builds is not writeable, yet you can create and write files in /cygdrive/f/builds! THIS IS INCONSTENT BEHAVIOR. Cygwin 1.5 did not have this behavior. Regarding the mount of drive letters via /etc/fstab. I am not sure what the documentation should say about this. Overriding the default mount of a single drive letter in fstab actually seems to work, although it simply reproduces the same behavior as the default. Even if I understood the actual behavior, I regret that am not familiar with the ways of Cygwin source maintenance to make the documentation changes. I have to leave this to somebody else more qualified. Cheers, Andy > On Oct 6 1:48 Corinna Vischen wrote: > > > On Oct 5 15:40, Andy Hall wrote: > > If instead, I map F: to /cygdrive/c with the following entry in > /etc/fstab > > > > F: /cygdrive/f smbfs binary,noacl 0 0 > > > > mount shows > > > > $ mount > > C:/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) > > C:/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) > > C:/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) > > F: on /cygdrive/f type smbfs (binary,noacl) > > C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) > > > > And ls -l of /cygdrive/f shows > > > > $ ls -l /cygdrive/f > > total 2048 > > drwxrwxr-x 36 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 16:30 builds > > drwxrwxr-x 17 ???????? ???????? 0 2010-10-04 15:23 releases > > [...] > > Why am I getting -1 for the uid and gid when I mount to /cygdrive/f but > not > > to /repos1? > > That's a restriction of the cygdrive prefix handling. You can't > override the cygdrive mount options for a single drive. It's an > all or nothing thingy. I guess it would help to refuse such paths > in /etc/fstab or mount(1), or at least improve the documentation, > but, well, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > 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 -- 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