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Re: [1.7] cygwin allows writing to readonly files

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Alexey Borzenkov<snaury@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, it means there is a bug in perl, because on Linux:

On second though, it is actually bug in Cygwin. Programs and libraries
expect superuser behavior only when user id is zero, which is clearly
not the case in Cygwin 1.7. I think that maybe only local
administrator account should be assigned user id 0, and that only
local administrator should be allowed reading/writing files that it
has no access to.

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