MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:09:33PM +1000, Stefan Walter wrote:
>The loss of the POSIX permissions is fine for me.  But what is then the
>purpose of tty in the CYGWIN variable?

In the context of sshd, setting CYGWIN=tty makes no sense whatsoever.
This has been a longstanding source of confusion which has gotten into
the cygwin meme.  For some reason, people think that they need to set
CYGWIN=tty for programs which would never end up using it.

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