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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 22:26:03 +0400
From: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
CC: cygwin-developers <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
        Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: chown and chmod for /dev/*
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Hi!

  If one thy to call "chown" of "chmod" functions for cygwin-emulated
files like /dev/tty0 they'll return (-1) and error "path not found".
It doesn't seem to be a major issue -- the only place i've seen, which
is affected by this is sshd, which prints a warning message. But it
certanly could break other programs.
Quick solution is to check win32_path.is_device() in this functions.
Or files like <win32p_path_for_"/">\dev\tty0 should be created to hold
security info -- as more unix-like way?

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19