Dave Korn wrote:
Christian Franke wrote:
For members of Admin group, Cygwin 1.7 allows to overwrite files without
write permission, but Cygwin 1.5 does not.
You are the root user, this is Unix. Of course you can overwrite files
without write permission.
This is not true when 'chmod -w ...' was done before the upgrade to 1.7.
Cygwin 1.5 sets R/O attribute, then open for write fails with permission
denied also on 1.7.
Christian
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