Problems with Cygwin-1.7.8 (or snapshot) and TeXLive 2010

[Ken Brown]

On 3/5/2011 5:22 AM, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Since fmtutil-sys is apparently the core of the problem, and given
>> my total lack of knowledge about the Tex/Latex system, is there any
>> simple call to fmtutil-sys with which I can reproduce the problem
>> without having to install texlive?
>
> It seems too difficult for me. fmtutil-sys is a bash script which calls
> another bash script, fmtutil, which in turn calls a bunch of binaries
> (as results from intall-tl.log) in the form like this:
>
> aleph -ini   -jobname=aleph -progname=aleph *aleph.ini
> aleph -ini   -jobname=lamed -progname=lamed *lambda.ini
> pdftex -ini   -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex -translate-file=cp227.tcx
> *amstex.ini
> [...]
>
> It seems that the binaries aleph, pdftex... are passed via a fmtutil.cnf
> configuration file.
>
> Anyway, with a binary testing (only .dll.bz2 of snapshots), I have
> verified that the last snapshot with which the .fmt files get the right
> permissions (-rw-r--r--) is 20100904 snapshot, instead with 20100910
> they acquires wrong permissions (rwx------). In short, after>= 20100910
>    snapshot, fmtutil script creates /tmp/fmtutil.NUMBER with drwx-----+
> permissions: fmtutil.NUMBER is a working directory for fmtutil.

The permissions on the working directory are not surprising (except 
perhaps for the `+'), since the directory is created by fmtutil with the 
command

   (umask 077; mkdir "$tmpdir")

But on my system, running the latest snapshot, the files within that 
directory still get the expected 644 permissions.  I'm running Win7 in 
case that makes a difference.  At the moment I don't have access to an 
XP system to test this on.

I wonder if this has nothing to do with texlive or fmtutil, but is 
simply a problem with the ACLs on a directory created with umask 077. 
Corinna, are there changes in the 20100910 snapshot that could explain 
this?  And would there be a difference between XP and Win7?

Ken

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