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Re: After Cygwin and XEmacs upgrade, read-only files aren't detected
- From: Mark Harig <mharig at erols dot com>
- To: "David M. Karr" <dmkarr at earthlink dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: 03 Nov 2002 00:41:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: After Cygwin and XEmacs upgrade, read-only files aren't detected
- References: <868z0cqurm.fsf@earthlink.net> <86fzujcmpp.fsf@earthlink.net>
With the most recent version of Cygwin, 1.3.14, CYGWIN has been set to
'ntsec' by default. Unfortunately, this doesn't show up in the output
of 'cygcheck -s -r -v'.
You might want to consider running the Microsoft 'convert' utility on
your disk to convert your filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS.
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 23:16, David M. Karr wrote:
> >>>>> "David" == David M Karr <dmkarr@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> David> Last night I upgraded my Cygwin and Cygwin/XEmacs installations to the latest.
> David> Today, I noticed that XEmacs can no longer notice that read-only files are
> David> read-only. Normally, it detects that, and sets the buffer to be read-only.
>
> David> I did report this to the XEmacs group, but they're not aware of any recent
> David> changes that could be related to this.
>
> David> Is there some recent Cygwin feature change that could be causing this?
>
> I discovered that if I change my CYGWIN variable from "tty" to "tty nontsec"
> this now behaves as I would expect, showing a read-only buffer for a read-only
> file.
>
> Before discovering this, I also noticed that if a file only had the "read" bits
> on, then XEmacs would see it was read-only. However, if the file had both the
> read AND execute bits on (still not having any write bits), then XEmacs would
> think it was writable.
>
> Testing the same situation with "vi" showed a read-only buffer, both before and
> after changing the CYGWIN variable.
>
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> ===================================================================
> David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++
> dmkarr@earthlink.net
>
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