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Subject: Re: setup messing up ntfs permissions
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 09:55:53 +0200
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Am 07.05.2010, 03:40 Uhr, schrieb Vasya Pupkin:

> Is there any way to stop setup program from messing up NTFS
> permissions? I don't like how cygwin works with NTFS permissions and
> therefore it is disabled through /etc/fstab, but setup ignores it and
> keeps destroying inherited permissions and replacing them with custom
> ones every time it installs something.

I can't vouch for the "don't do it part", but /etc/fstab is ignored  
because setup.exe doesn't link against cygwin1.dll, thus isn't a Cygwin  
application in the technical sense (although it is of course essential for  
Cygwin as a project or installation).

-- 
Matthias Andree

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