Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: From: Heribert Dahms To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Tim Van Holder Cc: automake@gnu.org, cygdev Subject: RE: Automake 1.4l released Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:18:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain Hi Corinna, works always? Even on readonly media? Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Corinna Vinschen [SMTP:vinschen@redhat.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 13:06 > To: Tim Van Holder > Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com; automake@gnu.org; cygdev > Subject: Re: Automake 1.4l released > [Heribert] [snip] > I have changed `utime(s)' in the current developers version of Cygwin > a few minutes ago. On NT/W2K it opens the file now claiming only > FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES instead of GENERIC_WRITE as desired access. > That works for a simple reason. Even if the owner has no write > access to the file's data, (s)he always has write access to the > file's attributes, extended attributes and security descriptors > (which altogether are the sum of the file's metadata). > [Heribert] [snip] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/