On Nov 28 10:10, V?clav Haisman wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > [...] > > Thanks for the report. I found a tiny comment in MSDN which explains > > why this happens. I'll apply an appropriate patch to Cygwin. > I am curious, do you have a link to that comment?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/createfile.asp Go to the "Files" section. The first indented remark starting with "Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP/2000:" explains it. On reading it another time, I see that my patch ignores the SYSTEM bit. Oh well... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/