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Re: Using either ntsec or ntea
- To: cygpatch <cygwin-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Using either ntsec or ntea
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 18:09:52 -0500
- References: <38CFEC22.77DC61CC@vinschen.de>
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:01:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I have a patch that excludes the usage of ntea on ntfs if ntsec is set.
>This is my "answer" to your question for mutual exclusive usage of
>ntea and ntsec.
>
>Unfortunately I'm not sure that we should implement it. Maybe we
>could use the ntea feature for communication with samba. Iff samba
>supports usage of all information that is written by BackupWrite,
>information in ntea could be used for all attributes (S_IFLNK,
>S_IFBLK, S_IFCHR). Wouldn't that be nice? I'm not sure if this is
>possible (lack of insight in NetBIOS communication) but that
>could be answered by Jeremy at least.
Ok. Let's wait until we hear from Jeremy.
cgf