Fwd: Windows File permissions are not being inherited - Cygwin 1.7 - Windows 7

[Charles Wilson]

On 9/2/2010 4:49 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> How did you find the problematic permissions? By looking at the
> security tab of the file properties?

Remember that the security tab has the very bad habit of re-ordering the
ACLs -- but the effect of ACLs is order dependent. Hence, just looking
at the permissions of a cygwin-managed directory or file, using the
security tab, can introduce a Heisenbug: there was no bug until you
observed the permissions.  Use getfacl/setfacl to manipulate the
permissions/ACLs of cygwin-managed files.

--
Chuck

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