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Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:04:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: vi stealing SYSTEM-owned permissions and ownership
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On 11/4/2013 9:50 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
Haha, yes. But if my students have to administer remote
production-machines, most of the time they have no other option. I want them
to succeed where others fail.
Reading this thread, it looks like it digressed far away from the original point
($subject) as to why "vi" did not keep the original owner of an edited file.
(also pointed out was that "nano" did)... A reasonable expectation, IMO.
I noted the same thing (to myself). When I looked at the information
provided, I was left with the distinct impression that the 'vi' in use
was not a Cygwin version. The fact that the file edited with it had no
POSIX permissions was a red flag for me. I was going to suggest checking
this but as the conversation had already drifted into other areas, it
seemed of small concern to the larger issues being discussed.
--
Larry
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A: Yes.
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