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 Message-ID: <3E5DBC86.1030509@netstd.com> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:21:42 +0800 From: Wu Yongwei Organization: Kingnet Security, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, zh-cn, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll, nontsec, and NTFS disk issue Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You are correct about file permissions, Christopher. We all know that Windows has loose file permissions and all files are marked executable by default. When CYGWIN=nontsec, Old behaviour: when an executable is wanted, the system will check by extension and content, not file permissions; New behaviour: when an executable is wanted, the system will check by file permissions on NTFS disks, even though nontsec is set. As far as I understand, it seems to be an overriding issue. For older cygwin versions, ntsec/nontsec overrides system support for file permissions; for newer versions, system support for file permissions makes cygwin ignore ntsec/nontsec setting when autocompleting. That is, the old behaviour only occurs on FAT disks. I think the old way is more consistent. Hope I am clearer. Best regards, Wu Yongwei --- Original Message from Christopher Faylor --- I think that the point is supposed to be that test.c must have executable permissions even with CYGWIN=nontsec. So hitting tab to get what should just be a command brings in test.c, too. I can't duplicate this behavior, of course. cgf -- 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/