Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > The last solution I could think of was removing the umask 022 command from > > the /etc/profile. This (I think) would have the effect of making all new > > created files having 777 or 666 permissions. However, does this affect files > > created from scripts or other programs? Or is there another solution to my > > problem that I haven't thought of? > > Yeah, switch back to FAT. I had the same issue. NTFS without > permissions is senseless.
It's not senseless. Even without permissions, NTFS has a lot more going for it than FAT, such as compression, hard links, non-insane timestamp accuracy, largefile support, ... To the OP, I think you're looking for CYGWIN=nontsec. Brian -- 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/
