Cygwin for Windows 8

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 15 23:55, GrahamC wrote:
> Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) is the access control.
> Â 
> While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as administrator, the
> individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.)Â can be both read and written without
> needing administrator mode.

Access control is not done inside Cygwin.  The permissions on the block
devices are set by Windows.  If you want to take a closer look,  see
the mapping of the native namespace into the Cygwin /proc/sys namespace.
Look at everything under /proc/sys/Device/Harddisk*, but make sure you're
admin, otherwise you won't see everything.  If you want to take an even
closer look, I suggest to download the winobj tool from sysinternal.  It
also provides a detailed ACL view.


Corinna

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