Alexey Borzenkov wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Alexey Borzenkov<sna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Anyway, it means there is a bug in perl, because on Linux: > > On second though, it is actually bug in Cygwin. Programs and libraries expect > superuser behavior only when user id is zero, which is clearly not the case > in Cygwin 1.7.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/xrat/xbd_chap03.html > Superuser* > > This concept, with great historical significance to UNIX system users, has > been replaced with the notion of appropriate privileges. This would seem to imply that it is permitted for there to be users other than uid 0 with "appropriate" privileges. Programs should not be trying to second-guess the OS about the privs of a uid, they should ask the access() function and find out. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple