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RE: cygwin and NTFS
- From: Pavel Rozenboim <pavelr at coresma dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:11:54 +0200
- Subject: RE: cygwin and NTFS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED)
> [mailto:Girish.Menon@med.ge.com]
> Sent: Thu, July 31, 2003 1:50 PM
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: RE: cygwin and NTFS
>
>
> Nope. That did not work.
Did you set cygwin environment var, or windows variable?
You need to go to "My computer/Properties", "Advanced" tab and set
environment variable there, then re-run cygwin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elfyn McBratney [mailto:elfyn@emcb.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:02 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: cygwin and NTFS
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Menon, Girish (MED, WIPRO-GE MED) wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know of any issues that cygwin 1.3.22 has with NTFS?
> >
> > Here's what happened.
> >
> > So far, I have been using cygwin 1.3.10 on NTFS with no problems.
> > Recently, I upgraded cygwin to 1.3.22 and all of a sudden I am
> > starting to get permission errors with NTFS. I then
> reloaded by system
>
> > and configured as FAT32 instead of NTFS. Now everything
> works fine. No
>
> > permission problems at all. So I reloaded with NTFS now.
> Now again, I
> > am getting the permissions problems.
>
> I can't remember exactly what version the behaviour changed
> but, Cygwin
> went to
> ntsec off by default (your NTFS bliss) to ntsec on by default. So,
> adding
> 'nontsec' to your CYGWIN environment variable should fix that for you.
>
> Elfyn
>
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