Preserving NTFS permissions.

Wed Jun 20 17:39:43 GMT 2007

Jeremy Allisonwrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:16:58PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>> Won't we also need to manage the relationship between the NTFS ACEs and the
>> old FAT-style permission bits?
> 
> No. These two have nothing to do with each other.

Interesting.  I would have thought that changing NTFS permission values
would also change the 16-bit view of the file.  Eg., if I remove
GENERIC_WRITE I would have thought that the FAT READ_ONLY bit would get set.

Chris -)-----

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