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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2005-09-15 12:24:46 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2005-09-15 12:24:46 +0400 |
| commit | c4ec3e76b9437d454ea72cd1b30340094b077e69 (patch) | |
| tree | 5f33ebd8646622bf0ef6eb1dd13d7286484ee5fb /winsup/doc | |
| parent | fef80fce5523ebe151aedee1e1ef8efd2a86f1fe (diff) | |
* cygwinenv.sgml (ntea): Add some wording to scare people away
from using this option.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml | 15 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 8039810b3..ec3e8c446 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-09-15 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + + * cygwinenv.sgml (ntea): Add some wording to scare people away + from using this option. + 2005-08-26 Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net> * faq-using.xml: Add 'net use' hint to network shares FAQ. diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index 77e9d4b10..835f56c17 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -111,16 +111,21 @@ Default is set.</para> If supplied, wildcard matching is case insensitive. The default is <literal>noignorecase</literal></para> </listitem> <listitem> -<para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - if set, use the full NT Extended -Attributes to store UNIX-like inode information. -This option only operates under Windows NT. Defaults to not set. </para> +<para><envar>(no)ntea</envar> - if set, use NT Extended Attributes to +store UNIX-like inode information. +This option only operates under Windows NT. Defaults to not set. +Only FAT and NTFS support Extended Attributes, not FAT32, so it's +of no use there. Furthermore, on NTFS partitions ntsec, which provides +real permissions, overrides ntea, which only provides faked permissions. +So setting ntea only makes sense if you either have FAT partitions, +or if you switch off ntsec explicitely. </para> <warning><title>Warning!</title> <para>This may create additional -<emphasis>large</emphasis> files on non-NTFS partitions.</para></warning> +<emphasis>large</emphasis> files on FAT partitions.</para></warning> </listitem> <listitem> <para><envar>(no)ntsec</envar> - if set, use the NT security model to set UNIX-like permissions on files and processes. The -file permissions can only be set on NTFS partitions. FAT doesn't +file permissions can only be set on NTFS partitions. FAT/FAT32 don't support the NT file security. Defaults to set. For more information, read the documentation in <xref linkend="ntsec"></xref>.</para> </listitem> |