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Re: wget 1.17.x creates odd permissions on downloaded files


Greetings, Warren Young!

>> Just use noacl mounts and you'll not have this problem again.

> Let me get this straight: removing Windows permissions that conflict with
> POSIX permissions is âoverengineered,â so your solution is to ignore all
> permissions?  I think Iâll stick with my solution.

WAT?
"noacl" defers permissions management to OS. It DO NOT "ignore" them.

> I couldnât use noacl anyway, because I use db_home: windows in my
> nsswitch.conf file, which means my $HOME is outside Cygwinâs mount table.

Yes, you do and, realistically speaking, should.

> Iâd have to individually map each %USERPROFILE% subdir I wanted into
> /home/warren in order to use noacl.

No, just set /cygpath to noacl.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, June 25, 2016 02:33:47

Sorry for my terrible english...

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