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Re: fopen()/fclose() turns off compression
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 20:51:29 +0200
- Subject: Re: fopen()/fclose() turns off compression
- References: <7rW9A5OUR1cX092yn@verizon.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 14 10:18, Jeff wrote:
> I wrote about this issue before, but now I have something specific to
> report. I'm running the latest Cygwin on WinXP Pro SP1, and have my HDD
> formatted NTFS. I also have it set to compress all new and modified
> files (compression set for the HDD, inheritable to all directories and
> files). fopen (file_name, "w")/fclose() on an already-existing file
> overwrites it as expected, but the new file will have the NTFS
> compression attribute turned off. fopen()/fclose() on a new (not yet
> existing file) results in a compresed file. Earlier Cygwin versions did
> not do this, and all files created or modified by Cygwin apps correctly
> inherited all NTFS file attributes.
Please try the cygwin DLL from the latest developers snapshot, see
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Does the same still happen with that Cygwin DLL?
Corinna
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