On 07/20/2011 12:05 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: > Is this broken? Or a known windows/cygwin discrepancy? Or am I missing > something with my posix/windows file permissions settings If you are running as an administrator, that might explain it. Admins can alter any file regardless of permissions, in which case [ -w is telling you the truth that under your current uid, you can indeed write to the file. This is a feature of access(file,W_OK), and not a bug. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- 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