Re:POSIX Compliance (Score 1)

You guys are misunderstanding how NTFS does its permissions. NO ACCESS is a special permission, to be used in specific instances where there should be a very limited number of people who can access something. It is a failsafe, generally used on the Everyone group, to make sure that no one gets access through a slip-up in assigning a group or permission. However, it cannot defeat the FULL CONTROL permission. Why? Because FULL CONTROL does NOT allow you access to the file -- it gives you control over the external aspects of the file, including security and ownership. The relationship between FULL CONTROL and NO ACCESS is also a failsafe -- If NO ACCESS could block everything, then a user could create innumerable large files that the administrator could not then delete, creating a denial of service by filling up the hard drive permanently(unless you're running some sort of quota software). All that being said, this IS a bug. However, it is one that has no real impact at all. I can delete the offending files if I have FULL CONTROL, or I can change the security on the files with my FULL CONTROL and then delete them (or read them!). The end result is the same -- and it keeps a serious problem from ever occurring.