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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 12:06:27 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: outstanding issues blocking new release?
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In-Reply-To: <20010807183813.A28586@cygbert.vinschen.de>; from vinschen@redhat.com on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:38:13PM +0200

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:38:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> =================================================================
>      IMPORTANT QUESTION!
> =================================================================
> [...]
> Shall we return to propagating permissions to subfolders and files?
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The advantage is that native windows applications would create files
> with useful permissions again.
> 
> Since 1.3.2 still propagate permissions, non-developer users wouldn't
> even realize that something has changed. Even users who don't upgrade
> to the latest setup.exe wouldn't have the problem which Charles stumbled
> over. Sorry, Charles! It seems as if you has been sort of a guinea pig...

Ok, I have tested the results and I have reverted the code to
propagate/inherit ACEs to child objects. So the behaviour is
the following now:

- New files and folder created with Cygwin have exactly the ACEs
  corresponding to the POSIX permissions.

- New files and folder created with native Windows apps get the
  permissions from the parent directory.

- The NULL ACE which is used for SUID, SGID and VTX bit is never
  inherited.

Corinna

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