On Nov 2 08:22, Egerton, Jim wrote: > > > $ ls -ld /tmp/foo > > > drwxr-xr-x 1 root Administrators 0 Oct 29 20:27 /tmp/foo > > > > 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: > > > > mkdir -m 777 /tmp/foo > > > > 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 > being set explicitly somewhere else for 1.7?
The default umask is set to 0022 in Cygwin 1.7 due to security considerations. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
