On Mar 31 11:37, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system > without doing anything special. > > This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read files > for which he has not access permissions (i.e., a file with all permissions > removed)[1]. > > To access such files in Windows, one needs to use a special Backup API.
The backup API is not really necessary to access such files. It's enough to enable the SE_BACKUP_NAME privilege and to use the FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT flag in file and directory open calls. This is partly already done in the current Cygwin release, but it will only be done consequently in the next major release 1.7.0. No, we don't have a release date yet. Feel free to test the latest Cygwin snapshots from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
