Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

I have found that Vista tags filesystem objects as "shared" whenever they contain references to any accounts other than the user. But, they are not "network shared". Apparently, Cygwin developers do not see this behavior. Maybe it depends if you use Home or Business versions of Vista, or whether y

Re: Select-all Vista install fails?

Peter Klavins wrote: > > I am a very satisfied user of Cygwin for many years, and on Vista since > Nov 2006. I always download and keep updated all packages, since I > usually find that something is missing when I really need it. Recently > I was presented with the opportunity to install Cygw

Re: New to cygwin

Tomasz Jankowski wrote: > > One more question, does anyone tried to build sctplib using cygwin? > Here is link to page with source code I'm talking about: > > http://www.sctp.de/sctp-download.html > > The most important for me is package named 'socketapi', because it > provides API documented

Re: Mounting tar files

Ignazio Di Napoli wrote: > > Hi all. > I want to copy my Cygwin installation on my SD card. Since it's formed > by many small files, and my flash memory performance is very poor with > such files, I was wondering if there is some way to mount a tar file, or > something like, even if in read-

Workaround for "shared" folders in Vista

Vista has some strange differences with shared file attributes. Files that are accessible to other people on the same computer are marked as shared, but only for files in the /Users directory. Vista sees all files created by Cygwin in /Users, as "locally shared", and manipulating these files from