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From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5F8AAC04F9616747BC4CC0E803D5907D0C40DF37@MLBXv04.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527CF337.DDA38C46@boland.nl>

> > If you are operating as a normal user on this folder, you aren't
> > actually editing the files you think you see there, the whole contents
> > is virtualized by UAC and redirected to your own personal copy on edit.

While it does sound feasible, it does not explain the fact that
the other editors used by the OP, have not changed the file ownership
on editing the file contents..

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08 15:59 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)
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] [this message]
2013-11-08 20:20       ` Andrey Repin
2013-11-27 18:11   ` D. Boland

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