I can reproduce the situation that occurs here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg83794.html
But only within the C:\Users\<username>\ folder. The Icalcs of the files inside and outside of that directory are identical. So it seems vista is interpretting files with identical cacls differently depending on where they are in the tree. Miles -- 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/