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Re: [Patch]: path.cc


At 06:48 PM 4/12/2004 -0500, Brian Ford wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>
>> I have also observed abnormal behavior on NT4.0
>> 1) ls uses ntsec even on remote drives without smbntsec
>>
>> /> echo $CYGWIN
>> bash: CYGWIN: unbound variable
>
>Ok, I'm confused.  Either I don't understand what you're saying, or
>the following from the Cygwin User's Guide is too dificult to interpret
>correctly?
>
>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html:
>
>(no)smbntsec - if set, use ntsec on remote drives as well (this is the
>default).

There is a third possibility: inaccurate documentation.

/eroot/src/winsup/cygwin: grep 'smbntsec.*=' *.cc
/eroot/src/winsup/cygwin: grep 'ntsec.*=' *.cc
environ.cc:    allow_ntsec = true;

Pierre


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