X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Rocket-MIMEInfo: 001.001,QW5vdGhlciBhbm9tYWx5IHdpdGggZGlzayBkcml2ZSBwYXJ0aXRpb24gZGV2aWNlcyAoL2Rldi9zZFgxLCAvZGV2L3NkWDIgZXRjLikgaXMgdGhlIGFjY2VzcyBjb250cm9sLgrCoApXaGlsZSB0aGUgd2hvbGUgZGlzayBkZXZpY2VzICgvZGV2L3NkWCkgY2FuIG9ubHkgYmUgYWNjZXNzZWQgd2hlbiBydW5uaW5nIGFzIGFkbWluaXN0cmF0b3IsIHRoZQppbmRpdmlkdWFsIHBhcnRpdGlvbiBkZXZpY2VzICgvZGV2L3NkWDEsIC9kZXYvc2RYMiBldGMuKcKgY2FuIGJlIGJvdGggcmVhZCBhbmQgd3JpdHRlbiB3aXQBMAEBAQE- References: <1350329081.35214.YahooMailNeo@web171406.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> <20121015193636.GC25877@calimero.vinschen.de> <1350331470.1670.YahooMailNeo@web171403.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1350341744.91309.YahooMailNeo@web171405.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:55:44 +0100 (BST) From: GrahamC Reply-To: GrahamC Subject: Re: Cygwin for Windows 8 To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" In-Reply-To: <1350331470.1670.YahooMailNeo@web171403.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q9FMtsLl009312 Another anomaly with disk drive partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) is the access control.   While the whole disk devices (/dev/sdX) can only be accessed when running as administrator, the individual partition devices (/dev/sdX1, /dev/sdX2 etc.) can be both read and written without needing administrator mode. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple