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Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?


Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> Good point.  Right now the group permissions are == owner permissions in
> the case the owner and group are the same.  Maybe it would be better to
> remove all group permission bits if owner SID == group SID instead. 

I think that would be defendable since it is purely based on how Windows and
POSIX treat groups and users in different ways and not an artificial
exception that Cygwin makes on top of that.


Regards,
Achim.




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