On Apr 10 15:13, Warren Young wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2015, at 4:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  This should help in Cygwin<->Windows interoperability.
> 
> That’s pretty vague.
> 
> Would you care to list some specific expected improvements from this
> change?  Are there known problem scenarios in the current world which
> we can test both ways, which should behave differently under the new
> DLL?
> 
> For instance, does it fix the well-known problem with chmod 600
> ~/.ssh/* resulting in mode 660 until you kick the ACLs around a bit?

Yes.  This has been discussed and I was originally opposing this change,
but not very loudly.  Other than that, please read the archives. You'll
find the threads discussing this in the last two months.


Corinna

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