Re: Permissions change concern

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 16 22:17, Eliot Moss wrote:
> Dear Corinna (et al.):  I have set up to use a separate group that I call
> Cygwin for files in my cygwin tree, and in the recent past have been able to
> apply chown, chgrp, and chmod effectively.  With the latest version, chmod
> fails to change permissions, though I can change them with setfacl (a pain).
> [...]
> The specific behavior I get is that chmod 644 on the file has no
> effect on the file's permissions - they stay at 774.
> 
> So, has something in cygwin "broken", or is there some setting I
> should be doing a different way?

It's broken.  I added a small code snippet in 2.5.0 which was supposed
to avoid writing a NULL SID ACE in case the POSIX permissions are simple
enough.  The condition under which to write the NULL SID ACE was...
uhm... not well thought through.

I applied a fix and I built new developer snapshots available on
https://cygwin.com/snapshots/.

Please give'em a try.  Since I'm going on vacation end of this week,
I intend to provide a fixed 2.5.1 ASAP.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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Red Hat

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