Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 11:39:32 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin & NFTS Message-ID: <20040514093932.GC12030@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <40A490BF.4090606@alcatel.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40A490BF.4090606@alcatel.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On May 14 11:26, Danilo Turina wrote: > I don't know if this information is related to your case, but notice > that in Windows (I'm absolutely sure for W2K and WinXP) when you copy a > file it takes the security attributes (the rights) of the folder where > it has been copied, while when you move it it maintains its > rights/security attributes doesn't change. On Cygwin it depends on whether "ntsec" is set or not. If ntsec is switched off, the default Windows rules apply, while with ntsec on, Cygwin sets the permissions in a POSIXy way. However, copying a file means to create a new file. Copying over the permissions is then a responsibility of the application (cp(1) in this very case). If the application doesn't have ACL support, then only the POSIX standard permissions (user, group, other) are transferred. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/