just out of curiosity, what jvm are you using that is cygwin aware? In other words, if you make the same change to the ntfs acls from the windows guis, do you get the same result? now the forces of openness have a powerful and unexpected new ally http://ibm.com/linux/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com