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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:04:44 -0600
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Herb Maeder wrote:
> Any code requiring elevation is obviously already cygwin specific.

How so? There are tools on Linux that are only useful if run as root; 
how is that significantly different? (Especially on SELinux systems 
where rights are much more complicated than in the traditional UNIX model.)

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