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Re: Permission problems in release-2
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:29:30AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:02:45AM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>I'm having an issue with creating directories in release-2. When I copy
>>a new directory into release-2, the directory is created 0755
>>cyguser:cygwin, so the file copy into that directory fails. After a few
>>minutes, the permissions change to 1775, so I can copy files into that
>>directory, but subdirs fail in the same fashion.
>
>Change your umask to 002.
After checking the mount man page, I found an option that can be used to
control umask on a per-mount setting. I just made '002' the default for
the release-2 directory so this should no longer be a problem.
Please send email here if there are any further problems.
cgf