I downloaded and installed a copy of Windows 10 on a spare system to see how Cygwin works. Most of the applications worked similarly to what I was testing on my Windows 7 system. However I have run into a problem with the screen command.
The first time I run screen the command gives me a standard help screen and data. If I type exit to get back to mintty and then type screen again.. I get: Directory '/tmp/uscreens' must have mode 777. Which after going through the faq and old mailing list was something that occurred on FAT partitions. So I went to check the install and the file format is NTFS. I then looked at /tmp and got drwx---rwt+ 1 smoog smoog 0 May 1 16:01 uscreens I went to try and change the permissions with chmod and got no change in perms or errors. [Looking at the various posts on this.. I am not to expect any errors.] I then tested screen on my Windows 7 system and it worked properly with the permissions on the directory as: drwxrwxrwt+ 1 smooge None 0 May 1 17:01 uscreens The umask of the user is 0022 on both systems. Any suggestions on how I can further debug this? Thank you -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- 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
