On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:55:08PM -0000, John Cooper wrote: >I've just upgraded to the latest version of Cygwin (1.5.25-15) and found >that the execute bit is not getting set when I create files: > >$ umask 'u=rwx,g=r,o=r' >$ touch a >$ ls -l a >-rw-r--r-- 1 John None 0 Oct 28 21:42 a > >(the execute permission also doesn't get set when I use the default umask >0022). > >The resulting problem is that any files I create cannot be accessed when I >log in using my wife's login account. >Such files used to be accessible from my wife's account when I used an >earlier version of Cygwin (probably from around 1-2 years ago). > >Any ideas how to fix this? I've attached the output of `cygcheck -s -v' in >case that helps.
Are you sure you're using the cygwin version of all utilities? You seem to have some duplication between c:\cygwin\bin and c:\bin. So I'm wondering if you have another version of touch somewhere. cgf >Found: c:\bin\ls.exe >Warning: c:\cygwin\bin\ls.exe hides c:\bin\ls.exe -- 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/
