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Re: cp.ese bug report -- possible fix?
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 07:39:42PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>
>>Well, I've attached a patch for this bug. However, it uncovered another
>>problem with 'cp -p src dest', when src is not owned by the current user.
>>
>
> If the system UID is 18 then maybe cygwin should be translating that to 0.
> Especially if 0 has no meaning to windows.
>
Perhaps. I just followed the example set by Corinna's changes to
inetutils. It might make sense to have cygwin1.dll translate UID=18 to
UID=0. This would subsequently require:
(a) all programs that have already adapted to "18" for cygwin, be
changed back to "0"
(b) what of /etc/passwd
(c) what of file ownership and ACLs?
--Chuck
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