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Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:20:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: Vista & coreutils (or any other package)
- References: <20061214152631.GK9829@calimero.vinschen.de>
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/14/2006 8:26 AM:
> Hi,
>
> just FYI, I'd like to point you to this thread on the Microsoft Windows
> Vista developer forum:
>
> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1020271&SiteID=1&mode=1
Oh. My. Well, as I maintain coreutils, and don't have access to Vista, I
will have a very tough time testing any "workarounds" to this blatant bug.
Deciding that a file is a "security risk" purely on its metadata is
absolutely wrong - it is the contents that matter, and not the file name.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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