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Re: umask not working?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: David Allsopp <David dot Allsopp at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:33:38 +0300
- Subject: Re: umask not working?
- References: <000f01d3bf80$a2e0d8c0$e8a28a40$@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1941712084.20180319200734@yandex.ru> <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D90189B91D4F@Remus.metastack.local>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, David Allsopp!
> Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Greetings, David Allsopp!
>>
>> > Is this expected behaviour:
>>
>> > OPAM+DRA@OPAM ~
>> > $ uname -a ; umask ; touch /tmp/foo ; ls -l /tmp/foo ; mkdir /tmp/bar
>> > ; touch /tmp/bar/foo ; ls -l /tmp/bar/foo CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW OPAM
>> > 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:21 i686 Cygwin
>> > 0022
>> > -rw-r--r-- 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/foo
>> > -rw-rw-r--+ 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/bar/foo
>>
>> > Why does the file /tmp/bar/foo get g+w when /tmp/foo doesn't - I'm not
>> > sure what to look at on my system to diagnose what I may have
>> > inadvertently tweaked. The directory itself is:
>>
>> > drwxr-xr-x+ 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/bar
>>
>> Let me guess, /tmp usertemp ?
> No - it's default mounts, so /tmp = C:\cygwin\tmp, to which my
> (non-administrative) user has write access.
>> You have extended ACL on the object. And overall, umask is not a good
>> idea in Windows.
> "umask is not a good idea in Windows" - where's that come from?
From knowledge and experience.
umask is strictly simple POSIX modes concept. In the ACL environment it is
anything from inappropriate to disastrous, but never useful.
> (In the actual scenario where I'm being bitten by this, it's because a git
> checkout is altering files which were 644 to be 664, so whether it's
> precisely umask or not, the *change* of permissions is the problem).
Use setfacl.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 15:32:21
Sorry for my terrible english...