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Re: Deprecating ntea
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:12:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: Deprecating ntea
- References: <20070227125509.GH24859@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:55:09PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>As the subject says, I'm all for deprecating the ntea setting.
>
>The reason is that it's just an ugly fake. It's not at all necessary
>and I even consider it as dangerous, because it pretends a security
>(permission bits) which doesn't exist.
>
>Does anybody have a good argument to keep this cruft against all reason?
I think this is a message for the cygwin list since I seem to recall
that some people still use it.
I'm all for removing it, however.
cgf
*cough* cygwin v2 *cough*