init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win32 error

[Dennis Heimbigner]

The following does not appear to be correct.  I use Win98
and it has occurred since 1.13.6 when I am doing a normal
install into d:\tools\cygwin13 (a FAT32 file system).

It appears that no one is willing to actually
solve this problem.
Can we do a temporary fix by including a test for some
environment variable or something so that the error
gets suppressed?

> The function works on non-NTFS filesystems.  You, yourself, noted that
> it works on directories exported from a Samba server.  It also works on
> Windows 9x which doesn't natively understand NTFS filesystems.
> 
> It apparently doesn't work on a Novell netware drive.  That's been noted
> repeatedly here.  It sounds like a netware bug to me.
> 
> cgf
> 



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