I use a user account in the local administrator group. I have used a administrator console to run the following tests (see #320). [...] All tests yielded identical results, namely:
"c:\program files\Haskell\bin\hoogle.exe" was replaced by a file with no
#454: file permissions of installed files on windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: Toxaris | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.6 Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.10.1 | Platform: Windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): Replying to [comment:8 Toxaris]: Thanks for the details. permissions set for "all users", but permissions set for "administrators". The file does not inherit the permissions set for "c:\program files\Haskell\bin" (read and execute allowed for "all users"). So the interesting thing is why copying an .exe into `c:\program files\Haskell\bin` does not create a file that inherits the permissions of that directory. I think that is what I would have expected, or at least hoped. It is not surprising or problematic that when running cabal as administrator that the `.exe` files generated are executable only by administrator, however I was under the impression that when copying files, the ACLs are not copied and the new file gets default permissions based on the directory it is created in. It turns out that the Haskell `copyFile` function does not copy permissions (though it does try to, this turns out not to be effective on Windows, which actually is what we want). I'm interested in what happens when one creates an ordinary file in `c:\program files\Haskell\bin` when running as the administrator user. For example if one creates a simple `foo.txt` file, does that inherit the permission read and execute allowed for "all users"? If so, is the same true if we rename or copy `foo.txt` -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/454#comment:9 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects