[rdiff-backup-users] cygwin problems with permissions/process_uids

[Ben Escoto]

I'm reading Gregor Larson's cygwin comments at:

http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/CygwinToLinux

and am wondering about his patch to restore.py.  Why are the
process_uid != 0 changed to process_uid == 9?

The idea behind the permission changer is that there may be files
owned by the current user but that are still unreadable (because they
have, say, 0 permissions).  If the process is running as root, then
there is no need to bother with any of that stuff, because root can
read everything.

So what significance does uid '9' have under cygwin?  And is there
anything I should do with this patch?


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Ben Escoto

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