Subject: Re: After Cygwin and XEmacs upgrade, read-only files aren't detected
From: Mark Harig <[email-masked]>
To: "David M. Karr" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: 03 Nov 2002 12:37:46 -0500

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 03:16, David M. Karr wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Harig <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>     Mark> With the most recent version of Cygwin, 1.3.14, CYGWIN has been set to 
>     Mark> 'ntsec' by default.  Unfortunately, this doesn't show up in the output 
>     Mark> of 'cygcheck -s -r -v'.  
> 
> Ok, I guess that's the change that has created this symptom.
> 
>     Mark> You might want to consider running the Microsoft 'convert' utility on 
>     Mark> your disk to convert your filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS. 
> 
> The filesystem on my disk is already NTFS.  Is there something in the cygcheck
> output that indicates it's fat32?
> 

Nothing in cygcheck (that I know of).

If you're using NTFS, and changing CYGWIN=ntsec (the default) to
CYGWIN=nontsec solves a problem with file permissions, then there
is something else going on. Normally, if the filesystem on your disk(s)
is NTFS then you want CYGWIN=ntsec in order to get the UNIX-like
file permissions.

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