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RE: Automake 1.4l released
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Tim Van Holder <tim dot van dot holder at pandora dot be>
- Subject: RE: Automake 1.4l released
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-scm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:18:19 +0200
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org, cygdev <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Hi Corinna,
works always? Even on readonly media?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:vinschen@redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 13:06
> To: Tim Van Holder
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com; automake@gnu.org; cygdev
> Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released
>
[Heribert] [snip]
> I have changed `utime(s)' in the current developers version of Cygwin
> a few minutes ago. On NT/W2K it opens the file now claiming only
> FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES instead of GENERIC_WRITE as desired access.
> That works for a simple reason. Even if the owner has no write
> access to the file's data, (s)he always has write access to the
> file's attributes, extended attributes and security descriptors
> (which altogether are the sum of the file's metadata).
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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