A notion about saving and restoring Windows file security info

Dear Cygwiners - Maybe this idea has been discussed before, and I can't say I exactly have a specific application in mind, but I was wondering about how one might achieve reliable backup/restore of files on a Windows system via a backup program written to the POSIX interface and ported to Windows

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Re: Unable to open the clipboard

On 04.01.2022 06:15, Mark Geisert wrote: Mark Geisert wrote: I haven't been able to reproduce the issue with -7 or the more recent -8 test version.  I suppose you might try -8 and see if it helps. Puzzling... Sorry, the {put,get}clip.exe are in cygutils-extra package.  But -8 is correct.

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Re: XWin does not erase lock file when exiting

On 27/12/2021 23:25, Rodrigo Medina wrote: When XWin regularly exits, it removes the socket in /tmp/.X11-unix/ and closes the XWin.?.log file, but it does not erase the file /tmp/.X11-unix/X?.lock. This file is owned by the user and him alone can erase it. The same user can start XWin again,

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Re: [patch] cygport : update to python 3.9

On 03.01.2022 18:37, Jon Turney wrote: On 31/12/2021 10:00, Marco Atzeri wrote: Attached patch moves "default" from 3.6 to 3.9 Additional changes:   Remove 3.5 from all   Change future to 3.10 Thanks. Other point: As 3.5 was never really deployed, I think we can remove it from the

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