From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 54905 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2017 01:38:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 54466 invoked by uid 89); 11 Jul 2017 01:38:47 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*R:D*ca, kaz, Kylheku, Kaz X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:38:45 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id Uk8QdgHu7rztEUk8RdDd1h; Mon, 10 Jul 2017 19:38:44 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=M/89E24s c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:117 a=MVEHjbUiAHxQW0jfcDq5EA==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=M2rHasGx9qBiiTWDaWQA:9 a=80_MvMIfTJIacZX4:21 a=C-Nj8N-u8OXyW4PL:21 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Request to the git maintainer To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87a84cxcos.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <64cc57cf-09c7-6225-963f-9adacb7d03af@cs.umass.edu> <5b9b894856c27a28ce349b3689fe8751@mail.kylheku.com> From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <5058c577-3875-2d2f-950a-04ef54172c8d@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 01:38:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfLKct0FPZb7xj0lRrS3sXDOxYHD0hdPrQg+3swIaN1tSkK68KCLlGffc5HVtxTdmuO9shWsGM2LN1DKjM1Jn02x6Mx00oL6ivRpmF2q24TnLvDhsaNgh Aq/IXIQ19/VvE5e32wLE700E61JCZtL4hPETkHW6V5XNa+JtFVa5GiBo2+xG30BaupWXDFhvsISsag== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-07/txt/msg00160.txt.bz2 On 2017-07-10 17:17, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 7/10/2017 6:27 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> On 10.07.2017 14:02, Eliot Moss wrote: >>> On 7/10/2017 4:24 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > >> You can't ask every vendor of everything that you have installed >> or "git pulled" to fix their permissions because your backup program >> has bizarre limitations. > > I'm not asking "every vendor". I'm asking a limited number of > cygwin port maintainers (and so far only one specifically). > > CrashPlan does not have "bizarre" limitations -- it quite > naturally has some difficulty if a file's access does not grant > it permission. > > The permissions on these files is what is bizarre. There is no > good reason they should deny read access. > > Windows does not really have an equivalent of "root" that can > access anything, so there is not really any privilege I can > give the backup tool that is guaranteed to work in all cases. Backup processes should run with SeBackupPrivilege. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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