Comments on: cygwin + NTFS permissions = badness http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:47:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: trentm http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/#comment-96 trentm Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:19:01 +0000 http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/#comment-96 Brian, yah, right. :) Though if you subscribe to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle" rel="nofollow">KISS</a> at all, the ACLs are a total failure. Brian, yah, right. :)

Though if you subscribe to KISS at all, the ACLs are a total failure.

]]> By: Brian King http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/#comment-95 Brian King Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:07:31 +0000 http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/#comment-95 Switch to FAT partition(s)! Switch to FAT partition(s)!

]]> By: Joe Grossberg http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/#comment-92 Joe Grossberg Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:41:42 +0000 http://trentm.com/blog/archives/2005/03/09/cygwin-ntfs-permissions-badness/#comment-92 Another odd thing about Cygwin and permissions that I noticed: Using Windows Explorer, the menus/folders, etc., you cannot get to lots of stuff under C:\Documents and Settings\[someone else]. But if you use Cygwin, you can. When cleaning up space on my hard drive, I noticed that this (work) computer's previous owner had a lot of vacation photos that were wasting space. Another odd thing about Cygwin and permissions that I noticed:

Using Windows Explorer, the menus/folders, etc., you cannot get to lots of stuff under C:\Documents and Settings[someone else].

But if you use Cygwin, you can.

When cleaning up space on my hard drive, I noticed that this (work) computer’s previous owner had a lot of vacation photos that were wasting space.

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