How to tell if ntsec is on or off

Wed Jul 23 16:04:00 GMT 2003

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:54:06AM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>>>luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>>>>>>>On 23 Jul, I wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>I was going to qualify this with `when ntsec is defined in CYGWIN' 
>>>>>>>>>It's not easy to find out if ntsec is turned on, is it? When I wrote
>>>the above, I was thinking "ntsec turned on" means $CYGWIN includes the
>>>word "ntsec".
>>>>>>But I think I've just realised that isn't true, is it?
>>>>>>If it's pre Cygwin 1.3.something-like-18, then it's on if and only if
>>>ntsec is in $CYGWIN, but if it's after, it's on unless $CYGWIN includes
>>>nontsec. So the actual test you'd have to make would be something like
>>>what I've written here (read "~" as "includes"):
>>>>>> version < 1.3.18 then $CYGWIN ~ \<ntsec else !( $CYGWIN ~ nontsec )
>>>>>>>The version where ntsec was turned on by default was 1.3.13-1. See the
>>announcement here:
>>>><http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-10/msg00004.html>
>>> Wow. You mean someone actually announced it? And it was nine+ months
> ago.
>> That doesn't sound very mean at all. I'll have to work on that.

Indeed. Perhaps you need a remedial class in meaness.
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