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Date: | Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:31:12 -0500 |
From: | Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> |
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Subject: | Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67 |
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On 11/30/2009 4:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 29 18:22, Robert Pendell wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Angelo Graziosi wrote: >>> Ken Brown wrote: >>>> I just confirmed this on my XP SP3 system. I initially got similar >>>> behavior to what Angelo and Robert reported, but it doesn't happen if I >>>> export TMPDIR=/tmp before running patch. >>> Indeed! >>> >>> On my system TMPDIR isn't defined by default; instead TMP and TEMP point to >>> $USERPROFILE/Temp. Setting TMP or TMPDIR to /tmp, works. Instead pointing >>> TEMP to /tmp does not, i.e. 'patch' creates foo.txt with '+'. > > That explains it all. The original problem was that inheritable > permissions from the parent dirs were not inherited when creating files > in Cygwin. That was a long-standing problem in Cygwin since it disabled > POSIX ACL default permissions to be inherited correctly. Now that works > correct. So Angelo's observation is actually good news, rather than yet > another bug. Nevertheless, it's somewhat startling to see permissions change as a side effect of patching a file. One simple way to prevent this is to unset TMP and TEMP in /etc/profile. Is there any downside to doing this? A search of the mailing list archives shows that the default /etc/profile used to do this. I didn't dig long enough to find out why it changed. Ken -- 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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