From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Extended Attributes and File Permissions
23 Mar 1998 23:05:37 -0800
Message-ID: <01BD570B.3404D2B0.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To: "'cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Parker, Ron'" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org>

Parker, Ron wrote:
> I would like to know everyone's thoughts on this. If it meets with
> positive feelback, I will gladly work on a patch for it.

See my FIXME before get_file_attribute() in security.cc :-) Definitely, 
cygwin _must_ use ntfs security to emulate unix file attributes and 
(optionally) EAs on fat.

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