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Christian Franke wrote:
> For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without
> write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not.

  You are the root user, this is Unix.  Of course you can overwrite files
without write permission.

> Is this a intended change of 1.7 ?

  Yep, think so.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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