Subject: Re: bug#74094: chgrp/chmod/chown fails to recognize "root" and respect --preserve-root under Cygwin

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:25:46 -0700

On 2024-10-29 11:57, Brian Inglis wrote:
> advice on how the commands are conceptually expected to deal with "root" 
> and --preserve-root would be useful

Presumably the way that "/" is treated on a GNU platform should be the 
way that a root filesystem is treated on Cygwin, even if that root 
filesystem isn't named "/".