chown with not existing user/group

[Matthieu CASTET]

Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> On Feb 29 09:16, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Why do you want to fake security when yoi can get the real thing?
> 
For the same reason that fakeroot is used on UNIX : I want to create images with
special unix right.

Also according to my posix reading [1], chown should be able to change perm to
any uid/gid. I was thinking cygwin goal was to emulate as much as possible posix
spec.


Matthieu

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/chown.html


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