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Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:11:40 -0600
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:22:17PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 07:47:57AM -0600, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > > But, this only solves it for NTFS with ntsec set.  What about FAT?  I
> >
> > It doesn't happen on FAT. It could happen on NTFS with files
> > created by native Windows apps and ntsec OFF as well, though.
> 
> ... and that couldn't be handled as long as ntsec is off. Which
> is a good reason to change automake. They simply can't expect
> that all file systems support their coding style. For that reason
> automake has to respect file system differences, IMO.
> 

Yes I agree.  However, perhaps the change needs to happen with the touch
code instead of Cygwin?

Earnie.

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