How to tell if ntsec is on or off

[Larry Hall]

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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