Strict Mode for Client?

[David Starks-Browning]

On Monday 11 Feb 02, tim.conway at philips.com writes:
> You're welcome.  Note to users:  I should have added this caveat.  this 
> works only on an NTFS volume.  I'm not sure what happens with a FAT, but i 
> know it wouldn't work.  I just don't know if something worse than failure 
> would happen.

Actually, using CYGWIN=ntea on a FAT volume will create a large file
that is *very* difficult to delete.  So don't do this.

Cheers,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)