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Re: resolving file access permissions...


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:50:30PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> You're stuck between a rock and a hard place as they say, assuming you
> plan to stick with FAT32 as your file system type (and that you're not
> interested in supplying a patch to Cygwin ;-) )  You're right that
> 'ntsec' only works for NTFS.  Unfortunately, it's been determined that
> 'ntea' only works for FAT partitions from NT/W2K/XP.  It doesn't work
> on FAT32.  This is a bug.

To make this clear:  That's a non-feature of FAT32.  It's not a bug in
Cygwin and it's disputable a bug in FAT32.

Corinna

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