Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > On Feb 29 09:16, Matthieu CASTET wrote: > > Hi, > > Why do you want to fake security when yoi can get the real thing? > For the same reason that fakeroot is used on UNIX : I want to create images with special unix right.
Also according to my posix reading [1], chown should be able to change perm to any uid/gid. I was thinking cygwin goal was to emulate as much as possible posix spec. Matthieu [1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/chown.html -- 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/