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Re: chmod again (FAQ alert)


Yep.  I've added a FAQ alert to the subject for David when he makes one of
his periodic sweeps.

cgf

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 10:54:25AM -0400, lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com wrote:
>Looks like we could use another FAQ update to encompass this information
>about 'ntea' and FAT32.
>
>Larry
>
>Original Message:
>-----------------
>From: Christopher Faylor cgf at redhat dot com
>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 00:41:32 -0400
>To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>Subject: Re: chmod again
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:39:15AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:47:39PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc.)
>wrote:
>>>I tried 'ntea' here on 1.3.22 and it works fine for me on FAT (see below).
>>
>>I duplicated the error on FAT32 but it works on FAT.  Weird.  Maybe EA
>>isn't implemented on FAT32?  Remember that FAT32 didn't exist until...
>>hmm...  was it XP or 2000?
>
>Yep.  Microsoft KnowledgeBase seems to indicate that CYGWIN=ntea won't
>work on FAT32.
>
>Sorry about the erroneous info.  I guess that means there's currently
>no way to handle posix-style permissions on a FAT32 volume.
>
>cgf
>
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