cygwin_internal(CW_CHECK_NTSEC, filename) patch

Jason Tishler jason@tishler.net
Thu Apr 3 14:01:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:19:16AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 11:29:29PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > this might return true on Win9X if a user has defined
> > CYGWIN=ntsec and checks a file mounted on an NT class machine.
> > You need to add && wincap.has_security().
> > 
> > Also, it's sometimes useful to know the value of allow_ntsec alone.
> > Could you return that, e.g. if filename is NULL?
> 
> I've checked in a patch.

Thanks for everyone's help.  For some reason, the "How many foos are
needed to change a light bulb?" jokes come to mind... :,)

Jason

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