From 872134b37d8102d0426d1dbbfaa73e334ae7931c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Starks-Browning Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 13:07:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update "why doesn't chmod work" with hint from Corinna. --- winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file 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?