ls/stat on OneDrive causes download of files

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Mar 11 17:04:52 GMT 2024


On Mar  9 15:29, Marcin Wisnicki via Cygwin wrote:
> I did more testing and found out that the problem does not happen in
> cygwin by default because cygwin mounts with acl which doesn't do
> header sniffing while msys uses noacl.
> 
> Testing on an mp4 file in OneDrive, when I use noacl in cygwin it
> triggers the read as well.
> After upgrading to the test version the read is gone and an mp4 file
> is not executable.
> 
> Thank you!

Thanks a lot for testing.  I backported the changes (minus the lsattr(1)/
chattr(1) changes) to the 3.5 branch so it will be in released with
3.5.2 in the next few weeks.


Corinna


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