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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Permissions, again Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:00:36 -0700 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <20050819194352.GA28538@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20050819202459.GA23900@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <20050820085926.GS17452@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Thunderbird/1.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7 In-Reply-To: <20050820085926.GS17452@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > use POSIX permissions with POSIX permission rules -> ntsec, > use Windows permissions with Windows permission rules -> nontsec Err, isn't that sort of a backwards terminology? When I see the word "ntsec", I read it as "use NT SECurity", vs. "NO NT SECurity" (i.e. something else, e.g. POSIX).. Perhaps the confusion might be reduced if the option were called posixsec or noposixsec.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/