Greetings, Steven Penny! >> I upgraded to the new Cygwin today, why is this command producing different >> permissions? Moreover how do I get it to produce sane results?
> I was able to use these command to produce sane results > $ cd /cygdrive/c > $ touch bad.txt > $ setfacl -k . > $ touch good.txt > $ ls -l *.txt > -rw-rwxr--+ 1 John None 0 Apr 8 02:16 bad.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 John None 0 Apr 8 02:16 good.txt > I feel that the default permissions are wrong here. On linux when you create a > new file with touch, it does not have executable permissions, for good reason. > This would be a security issue. Cygwin is not Linux. And C:\ drive is not a part of Cygwin. If you really want to destroy your Windows installation, there's easier ways than meddling with setfacl on the root drive. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, April 9, 2015 00:45:45 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
