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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:27:33 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To:	cygdev <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata
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In-Reply-To:	<20010814152217.G17709@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from vinschen@redhat.com on Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:22:17PM +0200

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:22:17PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > But, this only solves it for NTFS with ntsec set.  What about FAT?  I
> 
> It doesn't happen on FAT. It could happen on NTFS with files
> created by native Windows apps and ntsec OFF as well, though.

... and that couldn't be handled as long as ntsec is off. Which
is a good reason to change automake. They simply can't expect
that all file systems support their coding style. For that reason
automake has to respect file system differences, IMO.

Corinna

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