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From:	Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-scm DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Tim Van Holder <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
Cc:	automake AT gnu DOT org, cygdev <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Automake 1.4l released
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:18:19 +0200
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Hi Corinna,

works always? Even on readonly media?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:vinschen AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 15, 2001 13:06
> To:	Tim Van Holder
> Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; automake AT gnu DOT 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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