Some funny behaviour on a file

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:14:02AM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just seen what looks like wierd behaviour with Samba and a Win2K 
> client running cygwin.
> 
> Client opens the file and asks for a read-only file, but to truncate if it 
> aready exists. Wierd.
> 
> Then it sets some attributes, but write allowed is not one.
> 
> Then it sets the end of the file, reads zeros up to the end of the file.
> 
> Then it writes to the file!
> 
> Then it closes the file.
> 
> Later, it tries to open the file for read/write access, but this fails.
> 
> Does Windows really allow files opened/created read-only to be written?

Can you send me the binary please so I can test it W2k -> w2k and w2k -> samba.

Jeremy.