RE: Deprecating ntea

2007-03-01 Thread phil long
Corrina Vinschen wrote: > Hi, > > I think it's time to remove the CYGWIN=ntea setting from Cygwin. > (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) > > The reason is that it's just a fake. It fakes POSIX permission bits > by using the "extended attributes" capability built into NTFS.

Re: Deprecating ntea

2007-03-01 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Corinna, On 01/03/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Mar 1 19:58, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On 28/02/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I think it's time to remove the CYGWIN=ntea setting from Cygwin. > >(see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) > > How will that affect

Re: Deprecating ntea

2007-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 19:58, Hugh McMaster wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > On 28/02/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >I think it's time to remove the CYGWIN=ntea setting from Cygwin. > >(see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) > > How will that affect my system path variable, say 'CYGWIN=tty nontea >

Re: Deprecating ntea

2007-03-01 Thread Hugh McMaster
Hi Corinna, On 28/02/07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I think it's time to remove the CYGWIN=ntea setting from Cygwin. (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) How will that affect my system path variable, say 'CYGWIN=tty nontea nosmbntsec nontsec'? If so, please explain in a bit

Deprecating ntea

2007-02-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi, I think it's time to remove the CYGWIN=ntea setting from Cygwin. (see http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html) The reason is that it's just a fake. It fakes POSIX permission bits by using the "extended attributes" capability built into NTFS. it also works on FAT by creating a b