umask not working?

[Ken Brown]

On 3/19/2018 8:48 AM, David Allsopp wrote:
> Is this expected behaviour:
> 
> OPAM+DRA@OPAM ~
> $ uname -a ; umask ; touch /tmp/foo ; ls -l /tmp/foo ; mkdir /tmp/bar ;
> touch /tmp/bar/foo ; ls -l /tmp/bar/foo
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW OPAM 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:21 i686 Cygwin
> 0022
> -rw-r--r-- 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/foo
> -rw-rw-r--+ 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/bar/foo
> 
> Why does the file /tmp/bar/foo get g+w when /tmp/foo doesn't - I'm not sure
> what to look at on my system to diagnose what I may have inadvertently
> tweaked. The directory itself is:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 OPAM+DRA OPAM+None 0 Mar 19 13:44 /tmp/bar

See if this helps:

   https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.same-with-permissions

Ken

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