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Re: Problems after upgrading to 1.5.19-4
Timothy King <tim <at> timothyking.com> writes:
> The re-install fixed the path problem, but I still have strange things
> going on with the directory colors. Attached is a screen print.
> Notice some directores are the correct blue on white while others are
> black on green.
Not a bug, but a feature improvement that you picked up by
upgrading coreutils. Reread
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-01/msg00019.html,
including the bit about dircolors adding new colors for
coloring world-writable directories that don't have the sticky
bit set (commonly recognized as a potential security hole).
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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