On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > > I assume that, eventually and as-needed, a *small* number of additional > "hooks" could be added to other code paths than exec/spawn/etc -- such as > the aforementioned uname(3) thing. (One of the "deltas" between cygwin and > msys was msys used a really stupid ownership/permission model -- pretend > current user owns everything; check the DOS R/O bit for +w; check the file > extension for +x; -- but this can be approximated with existing $CYGWIN > entries or mount options. I think. So reimplementing that "feature" of MSYS > would not require any additional hooks).
IIRC that "stupid ownership/permission model" was a part of the original Cygwin 1.3 and was not modified. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd -- 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
