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Date: | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:26:01 +0100 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: mkdir differences between 1.5.25 and 1.7 |
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On Nov 2 08:22, Egerton, Jim wrote: > > > $ ls -ld /tmp/foo > > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 29 20:27 /tmp/foo > > > > 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: > > > > mkdir -m 777 /tmp/foo > > > > 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 being set explicitly somewhere else for 1.7? The default umask is set to 0022 in Cygwin 1.7 due to security considerations. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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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