Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/17/14:03:22
I've tried all these ntsec/ntea combinations but still have
no permissions. Can anyone tell me how to get Cygwin working
with standard UNIX file permissions? No-one seems to know how.
Garry Heaton
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:59:26AM -0400, Norman Vine wrote:
> >> CYGWIN = `ntsec ntea check_case:strict'
>
> can ntsec and ntea be used together ??
>> ntsec overrides ntea on NTFS, ntea will still work on FAT, though.
>> I suggest to switch ntea off. It creates a special file on FAT
>> filesystems which grows more and more and which can't be deleted
>> with simple operations.
>>
>> I suggest not to use check_case:strict, too. We created it for
>> a customer. Case checking is only implemented inside of the
>> path evalutaion routines in Cygwin. The underlying filesystems
>> are still only case preserving. You will run into problems
>> which are pretty hard to track down as a user.
>> If you like checking the case, at least switch to check_case:adjust
>> which is somewhat less nitpicking.
>> Corinna
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