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Re: Deprecating ntea
On Feb 27 08:12, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:55:09PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >As the subject says, I'm all for deprecating the ntea setting.
> >
> >The reason is that it's just an ugly fake. It's not at all necessary
> >and I even consider it as dangerous, because it pretends a security
> >(permission bits) which doesn't exist.
> >
> >Does anybody have a good argument to keep this cruft against all reason?
>
> I think this is a message for the cygwin list since I seem to recall
> that some people still use it.
Oh well, I was trying to avoid too much attention...
> I'm all for removing it, however.
>
> cgf
>
> *cough* cygwin v2 *cough*
You have a really terrible cough there, do you know that?
I'm still starting to sweat thinking of the hassle to pull the entire
distribution to a new, incompatible cygwin DLL name.
Corinna
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