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Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:03:19 -0400
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On 9/13/2012 8:40 AM, Boemker, Tim wrote:
> On 9/12/2012 8:03 PM, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> No because with Windows paths Cygwin doesn't look at Windows ACLs.  It
>> just reports a default set of ugo permissions.
>
> Where does it get the default set of ugo permissions?

Like I said before, they are hard-coded.  It will look at the read attribute
to decide whether or not to show write permissions for the file owner.  But
that's the extent of a glimpse into the real world, if you can call the
read attribute the "real world".

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Larry

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