diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog index 8039810b3..ec3e8c446 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-09-15 Corinna Vinschen + + * cygwinenv.sgml (ntea): Add some wording to scare people away + from using this option. + 2005-08-26 Brian Dessent * faq-using.xml: Add 'net use' hint to network shares FAQ. diff --git a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml index 77e9d4b10..835f56c17 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/cygwinenv.sgml @@ -111,16 +111,21 @@ Default is set. If supplied, wildcard matching is case insensitive. The default is noignorecase -(no)ntea - if set, use the full NT Extended -Attributes to store UNIX-like inode information. -This option only operates under Windows NT. Defaults to not set. +(no)ntea - if set, use NT Extended Attributes to +store UNIX-like inode information. +This option only operates under Windows NT. Defaults to not set. +Only FAT and NTFS support Extended Attributes, not FAT32, so it's +of no use there. Furthermore, on NTFS partitions ntsec, which provides +real permissions, overrides ntea, which only provides faked permissions. +So setting ntea only makes sense if you either have FAT partitions, +or if you switch off ntsec explicitely. Warning! This may create additional -large files on non-NTFS partitions. +large files on FAT partitions. (no)ntsec - if set, use the NT security model to set UNIX-like permissions on files and processes. The -file permissions can only be set on NTFS partitions. FAT doesn't +file permissions can only be set on NTFS partitions. FAT/FAT32 don't support the NT file security. Defaults to set. For more information, read the documentation in .