Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B794DBC.CEA047AC@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:11:40 -0600 From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: CD List X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygdev Subject: Re: readonly, NTFS, and file metadata References: <3B783E6E DOT 2546DF0 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <20010814120018 DOT D17709 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20010814121021 DOT E17709 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <3B792C0D DOT 5FADF8A AT yahoo DOT com> <20010814152217 DOT G17709 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20010814152733 DOT H17709 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com