Subject: RE: Automake 1.4l released
From: Heribert Dahms <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], Tim Van Holder <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], cygdev <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:18:19 +0200

Hi Corinna,

works always? Even on readonly media?

Bye, Heribert ([email-masked])

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:[email-masked]]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 15, 2001 13:06
> To:	Tim Van Holder
> Cc:	[email-masked]; [email-masked]; 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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