Incorrect permissions on mount point when user does not have permission to access mounted directory

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 23 18:55, Chris January wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have drive I: mounted at /backup but the ACLs deny access to anyone not
> in the Administrators group. I am in the Administrators group, but running
> Windows 7 so I can only access the drive if I am running with elevated
> privileges. If I run Cygwin without elevated privileges and type ls -l
> /backup, Cygwin shows the following:
> 
> $ ls -l /backup
> -rw-r--r-- 1 Chris None 0 2006-12-01 00:00 /backup
> 
> i.e. Cygwin incorrectly reports the mount point is a regular file and not
> a directory.

I can reproduce it.  I'll see if I can come up with a patch for 1.7.2.


Thanks for the report,
Corinna

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