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RE: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership
- From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr at ncbi dot nlm dot nih dot gov>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 15:59:18 +0000
- Subject: RE: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <5274F396 dot A133C4CE at boland dot nl> <52788702 dot B100AA7A at boland dot nl> <87a9hi92b7 dot fsf at Rainer dot invalid> <527CF337 dot DDA38C46 at boland dot 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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