From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	[andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk: RE: permissions problem]
8 Jul 1998 18:36:52 -0700 :
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To:	cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

Opinions, anyone?

-gjn

----- Slightly modified version of a message from Andy Piper
      <andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk> -----

Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 08:57:39 +0100
To: noer AT cygnus DOT com
From: Andy Piper <andyp AT parallax DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: RE: permissions problem
Cc: Sergey Okhapkin <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru>

>winsup.h:
>
>#define STD_RBITS S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH
>#define STD_WBITS S_IWUSR
>#define STD_XBITS S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP | S_IXOTH
>
>Note STD_WBITS :-(

Geoffrey,

Can I petition you to change the default perms to 664?  The problem is
that for users who are administrators (I would
guess most people with personal installations of NT) the default
permissions are virtually useless because everything gets the adminsitrator
id rather than your own id. So for instance I cannot edit cvs controlled
files in XEmacs because it things I don't have permission to edit them. In
theory XEmacs is right based on the permissions and userid but actually I
can change them because I have this dual role.
664 would fix this I believe. The g perm seems pretty useless to me
currently anyway - I can't change it and it is ignored by many programs.

andy

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