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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:00:20 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:23:28PM +0100, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Thus, I went ahead and modified ntea.cc and security.cc to support
> uid/gid in addition to the file mode. The modified version now uses
> three extended attributes:
> 
>    .UNIXATTR   - file mode (same as in current versions)
>    .UNIXUID    - UID (file owner)
>    .UNIXGID    - GID (file group)
> [...]

I like the idea.  I don't like ntea but that's a completely different
thing...

> What I'm looking for right now is some feedback on this idea.
> Naturally, I would like those modifications to end up in the Cygwin
> core distribution but this probably needs to be discussed properly
> before being considered. I added the source changes at the bottom of
> this email. They are not complete, yet, but already work for me and
> should be good enough for discussion.

First step is to read http://cygwin.com/contrib.html carefully.
Especially important is the fact, that we need a copyright assignment
from you before we can consider to look into your changes.

Corinna

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