Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:51:29 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fopen()/fclose() turns off compression Message-ID: <20040714185129.GB1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <7rW9A5OUR1cX092yn AT verizon DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7rW9A5OUR1cX092yn@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 14 10:18, Jeff wrote: > I wrote about this issue before, but now I have something specific to > report. I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP Pro SP1, and have my HDD > formatted NTFS. I also have it set to compress all new and modified > files (compression set for the HDD, inheritable to all directories and > files). fopen (file_name, "w")/fclose() on an already-existing file > overwrites it as expected, but the new file will have the NTFS > compression attribute turned off. fopen()/fclose() on a new (not yet > existing file) results in a compresed file. Earlier Cygwin versions did > not do this, and all files created or modified by Cygwin apps correctly > inherited all NTFS file attributes. Please try the cygwin DLL from the latest developers snapshot, see http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Does the same still happen with that Cygwin DLL? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/