I was floored that they let such an ignorant comment into the first paragraph:
> This is somewhat controversial in Windows, due to its weak file protections, but that's the way things are.
I read this as: we haven't bothered to look into the APIs for this... The Windows file permission model is a lot more granular than the "uid/gid/other" that most people are familiar with from Unix. Maybe this is a problem if you install to FAT32, which Windows disallowed since 2006.
Edit:
Apparently the text used to be:
> This is somewhat controversial in Windows, especially Windows 98 due to its weak file protections, but that's the way things are.
A user MarkDoliner then wrote:
> We no longer support Windows 98, so don't mention it.
But somehow in his editing neglected to make it a true statement.
> This is somewhat controversial in Windows, due to its weak file protections, but that's the way things are.
I read this as: we haven't bothered to look into the APIs for this... The Windows file permission model is a lot more granular than the "uid/gid/other" that most people are familiar with from Unix. Maybe this is a problem if you install to FAT32, which Windows disallowed since 2006.
Edit:
Apparently the text used to be:
> This is somewhat controversial in Windows, especially Windows 98 due to its weak file protections, but that's the way things are.
A user MarkDoliner then wrote:
> We no longer support Windows 98, so don't mention it.
But somehow in his editing neglected to make it a true statement.