Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:53:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run .profile In-Reply-To: <20040920150643.GB1700@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <20040920081046 DOT E810484CCE AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> <20040920091729 DOT GU17670 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20040920150643 DOT GB1700 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 20 10:08, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > On Sep 20 18:10, luke[...] wrote: > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Hmmm? > > Urgh, sorry about that. That's what mutt creates when no real name is > given. Does anybody know how to suppress this? I didn't find this in > the mutt documentation so far. Well, I know how to do it in Pine... 0:) > > > Sorry but this is bogus. There's no difference whether a directory is > > > created using Cygwin or Windows. > > > > Umm, sure there is. Windows Explorer will inherit the permissions of the > > parent directory by default, whereas Cygwin will always create a new set > > of ACLs (or, at least, I haven't found a way to make Cygwin directories > > inherit the parent's ACLs). I don't know how that can make a difference, > > but there it is. > > I wasn't in pedantic mode when writing that. Let's assume that when Luke > played with the permissions, he's already changed this to some sufficient > value, like, say, the owner may read files in the own directory... Right, I obviously forgot to put the .. tags in my reply. I agree that it shouldn't make any perceptible difference. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/