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Re: ntea dilemma

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:29:42AM +0100, Elfyn wrote:
>>The problem: I couldn't set 'ntea' to work properly in this
>>configuration.  'ntsec' is ok, on XP's NTFS, but no chown & co.  on
>>FAT32.
>
>The nt* cygwin environment variable options only work on ntfs
>partitions because of their extensive permissions structure, so it
>would not work on fat32...

Sorry, but no.  CYGWIN=ntea is supposed to work on FAT and FAT32
partions.

I don't know why it wouldn't be working in this scenario.
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