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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: umask problem: wrong permissions for new files
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1823587349.20180427115440@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180426143827.GA27620@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>

Greetings, Ulli Horlacher!

> On Fri 2018-04-20 (07:25), Brian Inglis wrote:

>> Cygwin supports Windows ACLs as POSIX ACLs, which are also supported by
>> Linux. Use setfacl to set similar default ACLs (DACLs) on a Linux
>> directory, rerun your test there, and you should see similar results.

> (How) can I completly remove ACLs from the cygwin files and directories?

You CAN, yes.
However, you will lose any way to access the files, as explained below.

> The standard UNIX permissions are sufficent for my needs and much easier
> to handle :-}

"Standard POSIX" permissions are insufficient even for most basic operations.
They survive only because removing them would cause even more harm, than
letting them sit around.

>> *Never* remove DACLs from any Windows directory which will *ever* be used
>> with any non-Cygwin Windows program: /undefined behaviour/ will result.

> Uuups... thanks for the warning!


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, April 27, 2018 11:52:38

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-27  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-20 10:04 Ulli Horlacher
2018-04-20 12:47 ` Houder
2018-04-20 12:53   ` Houder
2018-04-20 13:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-04-20 13:25 ` Brian Inglis
2018-04-26 14:38   ` Ulli Horlacher
2018-04-27  9:05     ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2018-04-27  9:27       ` Eliot Moss

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