Tim, For FAT volumes, you need "ntea" (NT Extended Attributes) in your CYGWIN environment variable and you must be prepared for the creation of a large auxiliary data file that holds the attribute information that the file system itself does not.
As with "ntsec," "ntea" must be present in the CYGWIN environment variable _before_ the Cygwin DLL loads, so the Environment control panel is the place to set it. Thus it will _never work_ to set "ntea" from within a Cygwin application. If you have Cygwin processes running as services, then put the CYGWIN setting in the System environment, not just a per-user environment. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 09:36 2002-05-13, Tim Gunter wrote: >Hi all- > >I recently upgraded my cygwin to 1.3.10, and have been having problems >getting chmod to work, although I am not sure if it was broken before this >upgrade or not, I do know that I have been able to use it successfully in >the past. When I use chmod, it doesn't change the permissions. If I use >"chmod -v ..." it reports that it has changed the permissions, but when I >do an "ls -l" afterwards, the permissions remain unchanged. > >I am running Win2k from a fat32 partition _with_ ntsec set(i know this is >only supposed to work on ntfs partitions, but it definitely used to work). >I have tried changing the ntsec to ntea, and chmod still fails to work >properly. If possible, I would like to run with ntsec, as sshd behaves a >little better with it set. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >thanks >-tim -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
