From:	rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org (Parker, Ron)
Subject:	RE: New winsup snapshot 9/14/98
18 Sep 1998 12:57:50 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199809181918.MAA05026.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@cygnus.com>
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To:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>,
	"Parker, Ron"
	<rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org>,
	Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

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> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 1:34 PM
> To: Parker, Ron; Corinna Vinschen; DJ Delorie;
> cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: New winsup snapshot 9/14/98

....snip...

> Does anyone know if there is any "slop" in the directory entries for
> VFAT that would allow us to shove some extra information in?

VFAT in the driver. I assume you mean FAT|FAT32 directory entries.

By slop do you mean unused bits and bytes?

>While writing this a simple solution to this situation came to mind.  
> >
> >If a Windows 9x machine accesses a share that contains an index file,
it
> >may use and even modify the index file.  Obviously if we allow index
> >files to be modified remotely, they can not be cached locally.
Either
> >way, they should never be cached remotely because the serving machine
> >can still the index file them.
> 
> So, if a Windows 9x machine accesses an NTFS partition over the net,
> it will never see the "UNIX permissions" that are associated with the
> directory?  Hmm.

....snip...

If someone has a better solution I'm open to it.  One possibility is to
use an index file on all platforms.  Which may be the best solution, but
I don't personally like it.

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