-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Matthieu CASTET on 3/4/2008 6:28 AM: | Also according to my posix reading [1], chown should be able to change perm to | any uid/gid.
You read wrong. POSIX also allows chown implementations to impose additional restrictions. And on cygwin, we impose the additional restriction that you can't change to a uid/gid that isn't recognized by Windows. | I was thinking cygwin goal was to emulate as much as possible posix | spec. Yes, and cygwin's behavior in this case is still POSIX compliant. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHzVFA84KuGfSFAYARAjI9AJwI/o6Or9YnPMPHrI6wvO4byQGqZgCgn/1s J2vBp2lLTx4nVupkqr6KNVg= =DsSR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
