On Feb 25 17:34, Frank Fesevur wrote: > 2015-02-25 13:51 GMT+01:00 Corinna Vinschen: > > Another important change in this release is a change to chmod. As many > > of you experienced since Cygwin 1.7.34, chmod does not always affect the > > POSIX permission mask as returned by stat(2) or printed by ls(1), due to > > the improved POSIX ACL handling. As a temporary workaround, chmod now > > checks if secondary groups and users in the ACL have more permissions > > than the primary group. If so, the permissions of the secondary users > > and groups will be reduced according to the mask given by the new > > primary group permissions. I.e, chmod 600 will remove all permissions > > from the primary group as well as all secondary user and group entries > > in the ACL. > > I have problems running screen on my pc. When I start it, it complains > about the mode of the temporary directory. > "Directory /tmp/uscreens/S-Frank must have mode 700." > > With 1.7.35-0.3 I could not chmod the directory manually. I just > upgraded to 1.7.35-0.4 and now I can manually chmod the directory to > 700 and start screen again. > > But IFAIK previously (not sure when) screen was able to chmod the > directory itself, but now not anymore.
There's no difference in chmod whether called from screen or manually from the shell. It's always the same call to chmod(2). I don't know what's going on in screen there, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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