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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:54:06 -0400
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
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Subject: Re: How to tell if ntsec is on or off
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luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:

> On 23 Jul, I wrote:
> 
>> I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' 
> 
> 
> It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it?  When I wrote
> the above, I was thinking "ntsec turned on" means $CYGWIN includes the
> word "ntsec".
> 
> But I think I've just realised that isn't true, is it?
> 
> If it's pre Cygwin 1.3.something-like-18, then it's on if and only if
> ntsec is in $CYGWIN, but if it's after, it's on unless $CYGWIN includes
> nontsec.  So the actual test you'd have to make would be something like
> what I've written here (read "~" as "includes"):
> 
>     version < 1.3.18 then $CYGWIN ~ \<ntsec else !( $CYGWIN ~ nontsec )
> 

The version where ntsec was turned on by default was 1.3.13-1.  See the
announcement here:

<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-10/msg00004.html>

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