On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:48:22AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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. yup, ive tried "ntea". i set it in the windows system control panel as a system variable, rebooted, and chmod still fails.
im a little mystified as to why it used to work in the first place(with ntsec on a fat partition). -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/
