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| author | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2000-11-22 16:07:14 +0300 |
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| committer | David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk> | 2000-11-22 16:07:14 +0300 |
| commit | 872134b37d8102d0426d1dbbfaa73e334ae7931c (patch) | |
| tree | 1ff8662288c5bde8d2117ea6ff398153b43fec70 /winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo | |
| parent | cc100085ed91b9a002e3e1ac4b27bc2d5ad80ab4 (diff) | |
Update "why doesn't chmod work" with hint from Corinna.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index 10e12b8b2..506e36f77 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -117,12 +117,18 @@ Install this too. @samp{ntea} works on NTFS @emph{and} FAT but it creates a huge, @strong{undeletable} file on FAT filesystems. +(The @samp{ntsec} and @samp{ntea} settings are values for the +@samp{CYGWIN} environment variable. See the Cygwin User's Guide at +@file{http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html} for more +information on this variable and its settings.) + There is no solution at all for Windows 9x. -These are settings for the @samp{CYGWIN} environment variable. See the -Cygwin User's Guide at -@file{http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html} -for more information on this variable and its settings. +If you have an application that requires a certain permission mode on a +file, you may be able to work around this requirement by modifying the +application's source code. For a hint, based on work done by Corinna +Vinschen for OpenSSH, see this message from the cygwin mailing list: +@file{http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01176.html}. @subsection Why doesn't @samp{mkdir -p} work on a network share? |