On Apr 16 22:17, Eliot Moss wrote: > Dear Corinna (et al.): I have set up to use a separate group that I call > Cygwin for files in my cygwin tree, and in the recent past have been able to > apply chown, chgrp, and chmod effectively. With the latest version, chmod > fails to change permissions, though I can change them with setfacl (a pain). > [...] > The specific behavior I get is that chmod 644 on the file has no > effect on the file's permissions - they stay at 774. > > So, has something in cygwin "broken", or is there some setting I > should be doing a different way?
It's broken. I added a small code snippet in 2.5.0 which was supposed to avoid writing a NULL SID ACE in case the POSIX permissions are simple enough. The condition under which to write the NULL SID ACE was... uhm... not well thought through. I applied a fix and I built new developer snapshots available on https://cygwin.com/snapshots/. Please give'em a try. Since I'm going on vacation end of this week, I intend to provide a fixed 2.5.1 ASAP. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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