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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
