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diff --git a/winsup/doc/filemodes.xml b/winsup/doc/filemodes.xml deleted file mode 100644 index e4cbd448f..000000000 --- a/winsup/doc/filemodes.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding='UTF-8'?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.5//EN" - "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"> - -<sect1 id="using-filemodes"><title>File permissions</title> - -<para>On FAT or FAT32 filesystems, files are always readable, and Cygwin -uses the DOS read-only attribute to determine if they are writable. Files are -considered to be executable if the filename ends with .bat, .com or .exe, or -if its content starts with #!. Consequently <command>chmod</command> can -only affect the "w" mode, it silently ignores actions involving the other -modes. This means that <command>ls -l</command> -needs to open and read files. It can thus be relatively slow.</para> - -<para>On NTFS, file permissions are evaluated using the Access Control -Lists (ACLs) attached to a file. This can be switched off by using the -"noacl" option to the respective mount point in the -<filename>/etc/fstab</filename> or <filename>/etc/fstab.d/$USER</filename> -file. For more information on file permissions, see - -<!-- TODO: Put the file permission stuff from ntsec here??? --> - -<xref linkend="ntsec"></xref>. -</para> - -<!-- TODO --> - -<para>On NFS shares, file permissions are exactly the POSIX permissions -transmitted from the server using the NFSv3 protocol, if the NFS client -is the one from Microsoft's "Services For Unix", or the one built into -Windows Vista or later. -</para> - -<para>Only the user and group ownership is not necessarily correct.</para> - -</sect1> - |