Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <63340-220034215145425326@M2W084.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall@rfk.com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod again Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 10:54:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Apr 2003 14:57:18.0715 (UTC) FILETIME=[4F8134B0:01C3035F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h3FEu4Z10841 Looks like we could use another FAQ update to encompass this information about 'ntea' and FAT32. Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:41:32 -0400 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: chmod again On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:39:15AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:47:39PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.) wrote: >>I tried 'ntea' here on 1.3.22 and it works fine for me on FAT (see below). > >I duplicated the error on FAT32 but it works on FAT. Weird. Maybe EA >isn't implemented on FAT32? Remember that FAT32 didn't exist until... >hmm... was it XP or 2000? Yep. Microsoft KnowledgeBase seems to indicate that CYGWIN=ntea won't work on FAT32. Sorry about the erroneous info. I guess that means there's currently no way to handle posix-style permissions on a FAT32 volume. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/