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Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> On Mar 31 11:37, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system 
>> without doing anything special.
>>
>> This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read files 
>> for which he has not access permissions (i.e., a file with all permissions 
>> removed)[1].
>>
>> To access such files in Windows, one needs to use a special Backup API.
> 
> The backup API is not really necessary to access such files.  It's
> enough to enable the SE_BACKUP_NAME privilege and to use the 
> FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT flag in file and directory open calls.
> This is partly already done in the current Cygwin release, but it
> will only be done consequently in the next major release 1.7.0.
> No, we don't have a release date yet.

Is there a release date yet? ;)


> Feel free to test the latest
> Cygwin snapshots from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Cool, it works! That's great!

When you write "it's partly done", are there any bits and pieces still 
missing in this feature?



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Tomasz Chmielewski
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