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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:46:29 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Normal Cygwin Behavior?
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10012062202060.24931-100000@flex.com>; from jching@flex.com on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:03PM -1000

I don't appreciate the personal attack.  I've sent personal email to
this person.

cgf

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:03PM -1000, Jimen Ching wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 02:18:43 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Whether you believe this is off-topic or not, is irrelevant unfortunately.
>>AFAICT, you're asking about the behavior of a non-cygwin program.  The fact
>>that people here may be knowledgable about a particular topic is not really
>>the criteria for describing if something is "on topic".
>
>>I happen to know a fair amount about tropical fish.  That does not mean
>>that tropical fish questions are valid here.
>
>Now you are just being a prick.  The question was totally understandable.
>Warren said he used 'chmod' to modify the access list of a file and his
>java program did not behave as he expected.
>
>Only two possible components could be at fault (assuming there is no bug
>in the program), java vm or cygwin.  I am sure if 100 people ran into this
>problem, at least 50 would choose cygwin.  And chmod _is_ a cygwin
>program.  Users of cygwin do not know how cygwin is implemented.  How do
>we know that chmod did not modify the NT acl instead of an internal data
>structure?
>
>The general form of this question is;
>
>	Does cygwin apps work with non-cygwin apps?
>
>Which is a completely on-topic and valid question.  So get a life.
>
>--jc
>
>P.S.  I really hope customer who purchase cygwin tech support do not have
>to interface with you.

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