Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 07:39:42PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > >>Well, I've attached a patch for this bug. However, it uncovered another >>problem with 'cp -p src dest', when src is not owned by the current user. >> > > If the system UID is 18 then maybe cygwin should be translating that to 0. > Especially if 0 has no meaning to windows. >
Perhaps. I just followed the example set by Corinna's changes to inetutils. It might make sense to have cygwin1.dll translate UID=18 to UID=0. This would subsequently require: (a) all programs that have already adapted to "18" for cygwin, be changed back to "0" (b) what of /etc/passwd (c) what of file ownership and ACLs? --Chuck -- 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/
