X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; q=dns; s=default; b=eCE14F9U/+m8hwmwgsDedPJKHBdE0 uiuBcPGiqyV18dJUjYMqnK8/408hVOPvpVt37FktMrxhPuKZu4Urb05kYNJmO6is baycsyg/EAlBk8CkU3dHU/AhN8mo1KDGt1a6rQ8N2viyODaTM3IzEjPhAl0MGdCH AhSfO58EjfbH88= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:from:to:subject:date:message-id:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :mime-version; s=default; bh=UiZZCZDb9o/qpZrz+7WU3hFoDl4=; b=H+m I0wVr8RoWL6Vb0C9NXGRvYG3H6lqHohdZMfgQSJZmy+KDcLZz9JPHF+S4FHglXZ1 OCmardPQI84tDyY1Y9fqvdbszHYwaQwz31KmBitiTQWKqnSUKvRBA04s1rpTrrEE w/YpxfrU63x2Gi50D9edFpUqVJ1TMJ5q09/i8LmQ= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_60,RDNS_NONE,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nihxway3out.hub.nih.gov X-IronPortListener: Outbound_SMTP X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgEFAJi0d1KcKEev/2dsb2JhbABZhBK/PYEoFnSCJgEFEihPAgEIDRUUEB8TJQIEARoah1+iB5w+jyc4gyCBDgOOVJAaiyWDJoIq From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" To: "wilson AT ds DOT net" , "'D. Boland'" , "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" Subject: RE: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 14:50:43 +0000 Message-ID: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C672@MLBXv04.nih.gov> References: <5274F396 DOT A133C4CE AT boland DOT nl> <52757448 DOT 81FE6C53 AT boland DOT nl> <1139549616 DOT 20131103022620 AT mtu-net DOT ru> <527698EA DOT 16C8F45C AT boland DOT nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id rA4EsjHL010854 > > Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote > production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them > to succeed where others fail. Reading this thread, it looks like it digressed far away from the original point ($subject) as to why "vi" did not keep the original owner of an edited file. (also pointed out was that "nano" did)... A reasonable expectation, IMO. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple