Re: File permissions cygwin install

2008-07-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Larry Hall wrote: Doing so would likely remove the ability that we have now the allows users pre-create the installation directory with the permissions they want to have for the entire tree. So adding the additional functionality you speak of to 'setup.exe', while possib

Re: File permissions cygwin install

2008-07-20 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Larry Hall wrote: Doing so would likely remove the ability that we have now the allows users pre-create the installation directory with the permissions they want to have for the entire tree. So adding the additional functionality you speak of to 'setup.exe', while possible, comes with additiona

Re: File permissions cygwin install

2008-07-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Angelo Graziosi wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I don't beleieve it is supposed to be this way? > setup.exe creates the files with Windows default permissions. Usually those are determined by the inheritable permissions of the parent directory in which you install the Cygwin directory.

Re: File permissions cygwin install

2008-07-19 Thread Angelo Graziosi
Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I don't beleieve it is supposed to be this way? > setup.exe creates the files with Windows default permissions. Usually those are determined by the inheritable permissions of the parent directory in which you install the Cygwin directory. Setup is a plain Win32 a

Re: File permissions cygwin install

2008-07-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 15 16:47, Henk van Lingen wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a cygwin rookie and can't get I clear clue (after googling) as to why > after installing cygwin on WinXP I have these permissions: > > $ ls -al /cygdrive/c/cygwin/ > total 9 > drwxrwx---+ 11 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:52 . > drwxr

File permissions cygwin install

2008-07-15 Thread Henk van Lingen
Hi, I'm a cygwin rookie and can't get I clear clue (after googling) as to why after installing cygwin on WinXP I have these permissions: $ ls -al /cygdrive/c/cygwin/ total 9 drwxrwx---+ 11 administrator Users 0 Jul 4 13:52 . drwxrwxr-x+ 11 Administrators SYSTEM0 Jul 15 11:10 .. -rwxr-x