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Subject: | RE: mkdir differences between 1.5.25 and 1.7 |
Date: | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:22:23 -0800 |
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> > $ ls -ld /tmp/foo > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 29 20:27 /tmp/foo >=20 > That's a umask thingy. Your umask is probably set to 0022, and per > POSIX, mkdir(2) has to take the umask into account. If you use > mkdir(1) > from coreutils: >=20 > mkdir -m 777 /tmp/foo >=20 > it should create the permissions as desired, though, since mkdir(1) > sets the umask to 0 if the -m option has been given. Thanks - that is the problem. I don't see umask being set explicitly in /= etc/profile on either 1.5.25 or 1.7. Can you please confirm that it's bei= ng set explicitly somewhere else for 1.7? Appreciate the help! jim -- 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
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