From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5277D3B0.2010508@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40C672@MLBXv04.nih.gov>
On 11/4/2013 9:50 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
>>> Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote
>> production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them
>> to succeed where others fail.
>
> Reading this thread, it looks like it digressed far away from the original point
> ($subject) as to why "vi" did not keep the original owner of an edited file.
> (also pointed out was that "nano" did)... A reasonable expectation, IMO.
I noted the same thing (to myself). When I looked at the information
provided, I was left with the distinct impression that the 'vi' in use
was not a Cygwin version. The fact that the file edited with it had no
POSIX permissions was a red flag for me. I was going to suggest checking
this but as the conversation had already drifted into other areas, it
seemed of small concern to the larger issues being discussed.
--
Larry
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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-02 12:55 D. Boland
2013-11-02 13:36 ` Brian S. Wilson
2013-11-02 18:42 ` Andrey Repin
2013-11-02 21:58 ` D. Boland
2013-11-02 22:35 ` Andrey Repin
2013-11-03 18:47 ` D. Boland
2013-11-03 22:05 ` Andrey Repin
2013-11-04 11:23 ` Brian S. Wilson
2013-11-04 14:54 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2013-11-04 17:05 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin) [this message]
2013-11-05 5:54 ` D. Boland
2013-11-05 17:38 ` Achim Gratz
2013-11-08 14:25 ` D. Boland
2013-11-08 15:59 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2013-11-08 20:20 ` Andrey Repin
2013-11-27 18:11 ` D. Boland
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