cygwin 3.6.6-1

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 15 19:23:02 GMT 2026


On Jan 15 20:14, Takashi Yano via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> I also could reproduce the issue.
> [...]
> Local. In the mintty terminal opened after
> cygserver is started. In the mintty terminal opened
> after cygserver is stopped, the gid is as expected.
> 
> The terminal already opened at the time cygserver is
> started/stopped is not affected.
> [...]
> > If you stop all Cygwin processes and restart cygserver, is the primary
> > group still as expected?
> 
> No.

So running cygserver suppresses changing the primary group?  That's
weird, because the effect seems so arbitrary.

Did you try to debug that?


Corinna


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