Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: After Cygwin and XEmacs upgrade, read-only files aren't detected From: Mark Harig To: "David M. Karr" Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <86fzujcmpp.fsf@earthlink.net> References: <868z0cqurm.fsf@earthlink.net> <86fzujcmpp.fsf@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 03 Nov 2002 00:41:44 -0500 Message-Id: <1036302107.1130.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 With the most recent version of Cygwin, 1.3.14, CYGWIN has been set to 'ntsec' by default. Unfortunately, this doesn't show up in the output of 'cygcheck -s -r -v'. You might want to consider running the Microsoft 'convert' utility on your disk to convert your filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS. On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 23:16, David M. Karr wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David M Karr writes: > > David> Last night I upgraded my Cygwin and Cygwin/XEmacs installations to the latest. > David> Today, I noticed that XEmacs can no longer notice that read-only files are > David> read-only. Normally, it detects that, and sets the buffer to be read-only. > > David> I did report this to the XEmacs group, but they're not aware of any recent > David> changes that could be related to this. > > David> Is there some recent Cygwin feature change that could be causing this? > > I discovered that if I change my CYGWIN variable from "tty" to "tty nontsec" > this now behaves as I would expect, showing a read-only buffer for a read-only > file. > > Before discovering this, I also noticed that if a file only had the "read" bits > on, then XEmacs would see it was read-only. However, if the file had both the > read AND execute bits on (still not having any write bits), then XEmacs would > think it was writable. > > Testing the same situation with "vi" showed a read-only buffer, both before and > after changing the CYGWIN variable. > > -- > =================================================================== > David M. Karr ; Java/J2EE/XML/Unix/C++ > dmkarr@earthlink.net > > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/