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Re: chown with not existing user/group
- From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu dot castet at parrot dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:28:31 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: chown with not existing user/group
- References: <loom.20080228T135447-901@post.gmane.org> <008b01c87a16$308a0540$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <loom.20080229T091201-103@post.gmane.org> <20080229092205.GQ9539@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>
> On Feb 29 09:16, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> Why do you want to fake security when yoi can get the real thing?
>
For the same reason that fakeroot is used on UNIX : I want to create images with
special unix right.
Also according to my posix reading [1], chown should be able to change perm to
any uid/gid. I was thinking cygwin goal was to emulate as much as possible posix
spec.
Matthieu
[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/chown.html
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