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Re: Permission problems in release-2
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:56:27PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>On 11/06/2009 11:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>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.
>
>The side effect of this is that all files are executable. I don't know
>if that really matters, but at least I had no problem moving pcre into
>place this evening.
Ok, so the option doesn't seem to work as advertised. I've removed it.
Anyone who creates files in release-2 should set their umask to 2. That
seems to work as it should.
cgf