EXTERNAL: umask not working?

Wells, Roger K. wellsr@leidos.com
Mon Mar 19 13:46:00 GMT 2018


On 03/19/2018 08:49 AM, David Allsopp wrote:
> Is this expected behaviour:
>
> OPAM+DRA@OPAM ~
> $ uname -a ; umask ; touch /tmp/foo ; ls -l /tmp/foo ; mkdir /tmp/bar ;
> touch /tmp/bar/foo ; ls -l /tmp/bar/foo
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW OPAM 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:21 i686 Cygwin
> 0022
> -rw-r--r-- 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/foo
> -rw-rw-r--+ 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/bar/foo
>
> Why does the file /tmp/bar/foo get g+w when /tmp/foo doesn't - I'm not sure
> what to look at on my system to diagnose what I may have inadvertently
> tweaked. The directory itself is:
>
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/bar
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> David
>
>
> --
> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
> Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
> Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>
>
FWIW
$ uname -a ; umask ; touch /tmp/foo ; ls -l /tmp/foo ; mkdir /tmp/bar ; 
touch /tmp/bar/foo ; ls -l /tmp/bar/foo
CYGWIN_NT-10.0 rwells-x240 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin
0022
-rw-r--r-- 1 roger None 0 Mar 19 09:29 /tmp/foo
mkdir: created directory '/tmp/bar'
-rw-r--r-- 1 roger None 0 Mar 19 09:29 /tmp/bar/foo

HTH

-- 

Roger Wells, P.E.
leidos
221 Third St
Newport, RI 02840
401-847-4210 (voice)
401-849-1585 (fax)
roger.k.wells@leidos.com


--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple



More information about the Cygwin mailing list