mkdir: This folder is shared with other people

Fri Nov 21 10:38:00 GMT 2014

On Nov 20 22:24, Steven Penny wrote:
> Tested on Windows 7
>> 1. Create a Homegroup
> 2. cd C:/Users
>> Now, if you run a command like this
>> mkdir C:/Users/foo
>> all is well.

Depends on your POV. When using a DOS path, you're getting default
Windows permissions, as documented. No special POSIX handling for
incoming DOS paths.
> However if you run a command such as this
>> mkdir foo
>> "foo" then has strange permissions.

No, it hasn't. It has POSIX-compliant permissions. "foo" is a relative
path, the CWD is always treated as POSIX path. The resulting absolute
path is POSIX, so POSIX permission handling is utilized.
> If you try to delete using Window Explorer,
> you get this message
>> This folder is shared with other people
> Folder: C:\Users\foo
> Share Name: foo

You have to forgive Explorer that it doesn't handle POSIX permissions
more correctly. The permission settings are wrongly evaluated as
permissions of a "shared" folder, since Vista AFAIR.
> This behavior feels wrong because both cmd.exe and PowerShell do not do this.

Weird comparison. CMD and PowerShell are not POSIX environments.
Corinna
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