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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 04:35:35 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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To:	Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Too Many Permissions Stripped In 1.7.35?
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!

> given that SYSTEM has permissions to read and write all files
> anyway.

Not true.
If SYSTEM don't have access to files, it can't do anything at all.
This is not Linux, system isn't run from root.

> I don't see that a rule to add SYSTEM permissions to all files
> accomplishes anything which isn't already available anyway.

See above.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru) 27.02.2015, <04:34>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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