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Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:28:25 -0400
From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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To:	John Williams <jwilliams AT itee DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: chmod again
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John Williams wrote:
> Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote:
> 
>> John Williams wrote:
>>
>>> I'm doing this on a fat32 partition...
> 
> 
>> OK, that's the problem then.  I guess you didn't read the FAQ entry:
>>
>> Why doesn't chmod work?
>> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_4.html#SEC45>
>>
>> chmod does nothing on FAT drives unless you're running some version
>> of NT and you're willing to incur the overhead of a large file in
>> your root (enabled by setting 'ntea' in your CYGWIN environment 
>> variable).
> 
> 
> I'm running XP, and would be happy to suffer whatever it takes to get 
> this to work.  The alternative is to hack genromfs, which I don't want 
> to do because it makes yet another branch in the toolchain sources.

Well then, suffer you will! ;-)  Of course, because you're running
XP, you always have the option of converting your partition to NTFS,
deleting the huge EA DATA. SF file that was generated, and using
ntsec instead.  You can decide which works best for you.


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