X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: mkdir differences between 1.5.25 and 1.7 Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:22:23 -0800 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20091102121910.GB7831@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20091102121910.GB7831@calimero.vinschen.de> From: "Egerton, Jim" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > > $ 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