Re: bugs in GNU grep for DOS/Win

[Jeremy Yallop]

--- Eric Pement <address@hidden> wrote: 
> (2) Second problem.
> 
> Grep v2.4.2 (Cygwin compilation) issues an error
> message when trying 
> to read a file with the Read-Only attribute set. It
> reports:
> 
>      [filename]: Permission denied
> 
> although a Read-Only file on a DOS/Win platform may
> be read by any 
> user. I think this is also a misbehavior. Feedback
> is welcome.

Hi,

Cygwin grep 2.4.2, on MS-Windows 2000, works fine for
me on read-only files:

  $ cat foo.txt
  bar
  baz
  bim
  bam
  $ ls -l foo.txt
  -r--r--r--   1 administ None  20 Jun 21 9:22 foo.txt
  $ grep bar foo.txt
  bar
  $ grep --version
  grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2

  Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
  This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions. There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

(The behavio[u]r is the same whether the read-only
attribute is set by cygwin's chmod or from MS-Windows
Explorer)

HTH,
       Jeremy


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