I saw Corinna Vinschen's posting
http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/30817-file-permission-hassles-on-vista.html
Vista, these attributes give the file a 'shared' property, which adds a
shared file overlay on the GUI icons. If you try to manipulate files from
the Windows GUI, things become VERY slow. It can take minutes just to move
Sorry, I can't reproduce this.
I got this problem when I created a TAR file (on a Windows XP machine),
and un-TARed it on Vista. I'm glad I found your helpful posting so I
can fix my /etc/passwd before I un-TAR some other TARs!
- Mark
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