PEP262 - database of installed packages

[Duncan Booth]

"A.M. Kuchling" <akuchlin at crystal.mems-exchange.org> wrote in 
news:slrna9ubdf.f6.akuchlin at crystal.mems-exchange.org:

>>           * XXX do we need to store permissions?  The owner/group?
>> +         THE: no, not on windows.
> 
> Really?  Even on Windows, couldn't files be potentially owned by
> Administrator or some other user.  We should definitely have
> permissions and owner/group on Unix; can you tell me what Windows
> needs here?  (I assume MacOS X would be the same as Unix, and earlier
> MacOS versions aren't multi-user, so they don't need anything.)

On Windows systems all files on an NTFS partition have an owner and access 
control lists. The command "DIR /Q" displays the owner of each file, or you 
can add a column to the explorer view. By default I think each file is 
owned by the owner of the directory in which they are created 
(BUILTIN\Administrators for just about everything). My laptop also has a 
FAT partition. It seems that files on that are owned by 'Everyone'. :-(

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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