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Re: MS-DFSR conflict with cygwin file permissions
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:09:33PM +1000, Stefan Walter wrote:
>The loss of the POSIX permissions is fine for me. But what is then the
>purpose of tty in the CYGWIN variable?
In the context of sshd, setting CYGWIN=tty makes no sense whatsoever.
This has been a longstanding source of confusion which has gotten into
the cygwin meme. For some reason, people think that they need to set
CYGWIN=tty for programs which would never end up using it.
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