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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by forgotpwd16 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @04:59AM (#31797554)
The ACL permission system is in NTFS. For example FAT32 doesn't have it.
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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by rurban on Sunday June 19, 2022 @08:39AM (#31798755)
Yes, but if you turn off inheritance perf goes up 10x. It's a policy, not the NTFS driver itself.
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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by forgotpwd16 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @09:38AM (#31799269)
Can you provide links providing more info for those statements?
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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by rurban on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:30AM (#31810770)
no, just try it out.

all my cygwin build rules contained turning off inherited perms to be able to compile bigger systems under an hour. e g. https://github.com/rurban/cygwin-rurban/blob/master/release/...

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