From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastien Barre To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [HELP] stat(), file permission, r/w access : i'm LOST :( Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <4.1.19990302094806.016bc410@mail.club-internet.fr> References: <4.1.19990301232226.01717350@mail.club-internet.fr> <3.0.3.32.19990301163809.00994e00@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.1.19990301211226.016b1250@mail.club-internet.fr> <4.1.19990301145716.017379b0@mail.club-internet.fr> <36DA3AD8.2047C010@uni-duesseldorf.de> <4.1.19990301024703.01bbe6d0@mail.club-internet.fr> <3.0.3.32.19990301174320.0098ad30@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00020.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.x7y9iDveerNyWewijAF2NoLFghbQ2yHAxe5JTQQmWzM@z> At 17:43 01/03/99 -0500, you wrote: >>Is there a workaround ? I mean, if this is a know bug, is there a way to >>fix it in the cygwin sources ? >Workarounds? You might try removing yourself from Administrators group. Which seems a bit risky. >This may do the trick. Alternatively, you can change your umask so that >write permision is given to everyone. That sounds interesting, could you please be more specific, I'm not exactly a umask guru, and I have no man page. Thanks a lot for any help. >Fixing the bug in the source is also possible. I know Corinna has been >doing some work with making permissions track more closely with UNIX style. >I'm not sure whether his changes will help in this arena... I do not want to put pressure on the cygwin team if I can solve it myself in a efficent way, they already do a great job. Sincerely ______________________________________________________________ Sebastien Barre http://www.hds.utc.fr/~barre/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com