X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B13BB10.20502@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:31:12 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-67 References: <4B12F891.9000008@alice.it> <20091130094315.GC16680@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20091130094315.GC16680@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 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