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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:57:20 +0200
From: Christian Franke <Christian DOT Franke AT t-online DOT de>
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Dave Korn wrote:
> Christian Franke wrote:
>   
>> For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without
>> write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not.
>>     
>
>   You are the root user, this is Unix.  Of course you can overwrite files
> without write permission.
>
>   

This is not true when 'chmod -w ...' was done before the upgrade to 1.7.
Cygwin 1.5 sets R/O attribute, then open for write fails with permission 
denied also on 1.7.


Christian


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