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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:07:13 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: No permissions on files created outside Cygwin
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On Apr 13 09:29, daniel DOT steinmann AT ubs DOT com wrote:
> 
> > Not really.  It doesn't explain what gvim exactly does.  The 
> > only chance I see is that you weren't logged in as t131085 
> > when creating the file, but as a local admin account.
> 
> The gvim process has 0 as UID:
> 
> pidde2 AT w01b1k85 ~
> $ ps -fW | grep gvim
>        0    3564       0   ?  09:27:39 D:\programs\Vim\vim63\gvim.exe
> 
> Does this make sense?

Nope.  The ps output from the Windows List (-W) apparently doesn't evaluate
the UID always correctly.

> Does it help to reinstall cygwin completly?

Usually not.  Looking more closely into the permissions and perhaps
regenerating /etc/passwd and /etc/group might help more.  Or just
use Cygwin's vim ;-)


Corinna

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