Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>> One reason to do this change however might be that it concerns 
>> security things (file owner). But I am not sure it actually matters.
> 
> Windows does not have a concept of file ownership. It has access control 
> lists for files on NTFS drives, but they do not distinguish between the 
> owner or creator of a file and other users who may have access to the 
> file. That is why Emacs considers all files to be owned by the current 
> user. Cygwin has some mapping of ACLs to posix ownership, but that is 
> more for bidirectional use by Cygwin to retain its own idea of posix 
> ownership. Files created outside Cygwin may end up with some arbritrary 
> default similar to what Emacs does (I haven't studied the Cygwin code, 
> so I don't know the exact details of what they do).


Are you sure windows does not have file ownership? If you look at the 
properties for a file, click on the "Security" tab and then then 
"Advanced" there is a tab saying owner.