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Re: [HEADSUP] Let's start a Cygwin 1.7 release area
On Jul 25 06:55, Phil Nelson wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2008 12:21:22 am Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > No, they aren't. ?The reason for this effect is that in 1.5, the user
> > and group ownership, as well as the permissions were ignored by default
> > (CYGWIN=nosmbntsec).
>
> Thanks. And are we starting a FAQ for things like this for 1.7? Such a
> change in the security model between 1.5 and 1.7 is likely to generate
> many questions.
Sure, and I'm three-quarter through the new documentation. FAQ didn't
see any changes yet. The current unfinished state of the docs can be
marveled at under http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net.html
Corinna
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