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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 09:48:22 -0700
To: tim DOT gunter AT bioscrypt DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: cygwin 1.3.10 + win2k + fat32 + chmod prob
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Tim,

For FAT volumes, you need "ntea" (NT Extended Attributes) in your CYGWIN 
environment variable and you must be prepared for the creation of a large 
auxiliary data file that holds the attribute information that the file 
system itself does not.

As with "ntsec," "ntea" must be present in the CYGWIN environment variable 
_before_ the Cygwin DLL loads, so the Environment control panel is the 
place to set it. Thus it will _never work_ to set "ntea" from within a 
Cygwin application. If you have Cygwin processes running as services, then 
put the CYGWIN setting in the System environment, not just a per-user 
environment.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA



At 09:36 2002-05-13, Tim Gunter wrote:
>Hi all-
>
>I recently upgraded my cygwin to 1.3.10, and have been having problems 
>getting chmod to work, although I am not sure if it was broken before this 
>upgrade or not, I do know that I have been able to use it successfully in 
>the past. When I use chmod, it doesn't change the permissions. If I use 
>"chmod -v ..." it reports that it has changed the permissions, but when I 
>do an "ls -l" afterwards, the permissions remain unchanged.
>
>I am running Win2k from a fat32 partition _with_ ntsec set(i know this is 
>only supposed to work on ntfs partitions, but it definitely used to work). 
>I have tried changing the ntsec to ntea, and chmod still fails to work 
>properly. If possible, I would like to run with ntsec, as sshd behaves a 
>little better with it set.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>thanks
>-tim


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