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Re: cygwin1.dll, nontsec, and NTFS disk issue
- From: Wu Yongwei <adah at netstd dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:21:42 +0800
- Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll, nontsec, and NTFS disk issue
- Organization: Kingnet Security, Inc.
You are correct about file permissions, Christopher.
We all know that Windows has loose file permissions and all files are
marked executable by default. When CYGWIN=nontsec,
Old behaviour: when an executable is wanted, the system will check by
extension and content, not file permissions;
New behaviour: when an executable is wanted, the system will check by
file permissions on NTFS disks, even though nontsec is set.
As far as I understand, it seems to be an overriding issue. For older
cygwin versions, ntsec/nontsec overrides system support for file
permissions; for newer versions, system support for file permissions
makes cygwin ignore ntsec/nontsec setting when autocompleting. That is,
the old behaviour only occurs on FAT disks.
I think the old way is more consistent.
Hope I am clearer.
Best regards,
Wu Yongwei
--- Original Message from Christopher Faylor ---
I think that the point is supposed to be that test.c must have
executable permissions even with CYGWIN=nontsec. So hitting tab to get
what should just be a command brings in test.c, too.
I can't duplicate this behavior, of course.
cgf
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