On Nov 10 07:22, aputerguy wrote: >> Corinna Vinschen-2 writes: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bypass%20traverse%20checking%22 >> I was <sigh> unaware of that "feature" > However, after turning it off, Don't do that. There's more to this user right than you see at first sight. A lot of stuff might not work anymore as you expected in Windows. > While in Cygwin, for any value of <any string> whether the file/directory > exists or not, I seem to get the following rather than an error message. > -rw-r--r-- 1 1006 513 0 Nov 30 2006 dir/<any string> > where 1006:513 = UID:GID Your own user account is in the administrators group, by any chance? 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