[Geany] Geany under Windows XP oddity

[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:19:15 +0200, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch>
wrote:

> Enrico Tröger wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:54:50 +0200, Tim Tassonis <timtas at cubic.ch>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I encountered a strange behaviour of geany under Windows. Geany
> >> seems to need Administrative Privileges under Windows, otherwise
> >> it will coredump when opening a file. Has anybody else
> >> expierienced this problem as well?
> > Do you have a NTFS filesystem and perhaps not the sufficient read
> > permissions on this file? Even in this case Geany should not crash
> > but it is not tested under Windows yet(I have a FAT32 filesystem).
>
> I do have NTFS and was thinking of permission problems, too. This is
> how things went:
> I had a user tit with group Administrators
> I installed mingw, gtk+ and geany under this user and all worked well
> I took the admin privileges off the user and geany started to crash.
> But the files I tried to edit belong to the user tit.
> I could edit the file with write and save it, too
> I granted Administrator privilege to the user again and geany stopped
> to crash.
Interesting. I will make a little NTFS partition on my Windows box to
test this, but this will take some time.
Probably there is something wrong with the checking of file
permissions under Windows.

> It might as well have to to with the gtk+ libraries. I use the ones
> suggested on the geany home page.
I don't think this is GTK related.

Regards,
Enrico

P.S.: I'm replying to the list, since you replied only to me ;-).

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