grep 2.4 and permission denied

Jay Bromley jaywb@pacbell.net
Fri May 5 17:17:00 GMT 2000

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Hello again,
I recently installed a cygwin 1.1.0 and find it is great (thanks to
those who have made this possible, it makes working in the M$ world bearable.)
I am having some oddness related (I believe) to how cygwin interacts with
NTFS.
My problem started when I wanted a recursive grep (yeah, I know about
find | xargs grep foo) program. I downloaded the latest grep from ftp.gnu.org,
did ./configure and then make from the top level grep-2.4 directory and
everything worked great. The build succeeded, when I tried make check all
8 tests were passed.
The problem is when I do grep --recursive foo I get a permission denied
message for each subdirectory of the current directory. I.e.:
[jay@YEMAYA grep-2.4] grep --recursive CONTEXT_DEBUGGER *
grep: bootstrap: Permission denied
grep: djgpp: Permission denied
(and so on for each and every subdir)...
Grep works fine non-recursively. I have set up both /etc/group (mkgroup
-l > group) and /etc/passwd (mkpasswd -l > passwd). The directory in question
looks like (minus non-directories):
drwxr-xr-x   6 jay      None       
81920 May  5 12:35 bfd/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jay      None       
20480 Apr  7  1999 config/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None        
4096 May  5 12:33 etc/
drwxr-xr-x  12 jay      None      
114688 May  5 12:36 gdb/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None           
0 May  5 12:29 i686-pc-cygwin32/
drwxr-xr-x   9 jay      None        
8192 Apr  7  1999 include/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None       
12288 May  5 12:33 intl/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jay      None       
24576 May  5 12:33 libiberty/
drwxr-xr-x   2 jay      None        
8192 May  5 12:35 mmalloc/
drwxr-xr-x   4 jay      None       
24576 May  5 12:35 opcodes/
drwxr-xr-x   6 jay      None       
20480 May  5 12:35 readline/
drwxr-xr-x  21 jay      None        
4096 May  5 12:32 sim/
drwxr-xr-x   3 jay      None        
4096 Apr  7  1999 texinfo/
drwxr-xr-x   7 jay      None        
4096 May  5 12:33 utils/
One curiousity is trying to chown jay.Users * changed nothing.
Also, I am curious as to what setting the CYGWIN=ntsec environment setting
really does. I haven't been able to find too much about this. I would appreciate
any pointers about how permissions work in cygwin.
Thanks and regards,
Jay Bromley

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