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On Nov 28 10:10, V?clav Haisman wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> [...]
> > Thanks for the report.  I found a tiny comment in MSDN which explains
> > why this happens.  I'll apply an appropriate patch to Cygwin.
> I am curious, do you have a link to that comment?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createfile.asp

Go to the "Files" section.  The first indented remark starting with
"Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP/2000:" explains it.

On reading it another time, I see that my patch ignores the SYSTEM bit.
Oh well...


Corinna

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