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From:	"Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)" <Girish DOT Menon AT med DOT ge DOT com>
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To:	"'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: cygwin and NTFS
Date:	Thu, 31 Jul 2003 05:50:00 -0500
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Nope. That did not work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn AT emcb DOT co DOT uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:02 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin and NTFS


On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote:

> Does anybody know of any issues that cygwin 1.3.22 has with NTFS?
> 
> Here's what happened.
> 
> So far, I have been using cygwin 1.3.10 on NTFS with no problems. 
> Recently, I upgraded cygwin to 1.3.22 and all of a sudden I am 
> starting to get permission errors with NTFS. I then reloaded by system

> and configured as FAT32 instead of NTFS. Now everything works fine. No

> permission problems at all. So I reloaded with NTFS now. Now again, I 
> am getting the permissions problems.

I can't remember exactly what version the behaviour changed but, Cygwin
went to 
ntsec off by default (your NTFS bliss) to ntsec on by default. So,
adding 
'nontsec' to your CYGWIN environment variable should fix that for you.

Elfyn

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