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.
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