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On Feb 9 22:50, diod lightbulb wrote: > On 9 February 2015 at 21:28, Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote: > > Am 09.02.2015 um 16:37 schrieb diod lightbulb: > >> > >> ... > >> > >> 1- For pre-existing files/directories under /cygdrive/d and /cygdrive/e > >> All my file permissions that were correctly reported by ls -l as > >> rw-r--r-- became all of a sudden -rw-rwxr--+ ??? The same for > >> directories where all previously 755 dirs came back as drwxrwxr-x+ > >> > >> > >> ... > >> % chmod 644 buggy > >> % stat -c " %a %u %g" buggy > >> " buggy 674 1000 545 > >> > >> Oooch, no change??? chmod used to work before today (BTW, same > >> behavior for pre-existing files: chmod has no effect). > >> ... > > > > See my mail about "group permissions". This would resolve nicely if chmod > > gets changed to behave like on Linux. > > ------ > > Thomas > > Hi Thomas, > > Maybe so, I really didn't see the point of ACLs before, I'm just happy > with (used to?) plain POSIX. And up until now, the cygwin behavior was > OK with me. I must say (a somewhat big inconvenience but I didn't > complain) that I routinely chmod 644 all new files created by > non-cygwin apps (say new files downloaded with Mozilla). That's why I > asked earlier if there's an easy way to enforce file permissions 644 > for any newly created file. Maybe through Windows but then what would > be the right corresponding Windows permissions to ensure them? > > It's important for me that the files I care for are in Group Users as > my use case on this box is a Debian/Windows 7 dual-boot. I have a > UserMapping file for drives D: and E: to try to get consistent > ownership on both. Another inconvenience right now is that the Group > given to newly created files from non-cygwin apps (again, one example > is a Mozilla downloaded file, another one is a Gimp newly created > file) seems to be None instead of Users for cygwin apps. I routinely > chgrp them. Is there a way to make sure that they belong to the Users > group from the start? Guys, I'm aware that the new ACL group/mask behaviour gives a little trouble. Before you turn your Windows system upside down, let's discuss how to go forward. See my mail at https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00197.html and chime in so we can puzzle out the best solution for the future. Ideally I(*) only have to implement this once ;) Corinna (*) Well, ideally somebody takes a heart and helps coding... -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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