Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

Brian Dessent wrote:

So, I don't see what's wrong here.  The files created by the native app
took the defaults from the dir, so if something is not happening the way
you like make sure the dir is created with the right DACL first.  Or if
you'd rather have Cygwin behave like the native programs then set
CYGWIN=nontsec.

Thank you for pointing out getfacl, I didn't know that existed.  You are right in that the ACLs from getfacl match up correctly.  Also, if you create a directory in Cygwin on /c like you did it does not show up as shared.  If you create a directory in your Vista home directory (/c/Users/<username>/) on the other hand it shows up as shared.  I thought there was something about the /c/Users/<username> directory where child folders inherit the parent's settings as you alluded to; however, the /c/Users/<username> dir is not shared by default.  Is setting a folder to be shared separate from the ACLs?  If I create a folder in Vista and set it to shared/not shared getfacl returns the same thing.  Do you have any more insight about this?

I can also say that CYGWIN=notntsec does fix this behavior (created folders are no longer shared).  I have searched for information about this setting but haven't yet found a good explanation.  Can you shed some light on what this env variable does, and what are the consequences of setting it (or point me to a post/resource that can explain it?)

Brian Dessent wrote:

Now you're just being ridiculous.  Nowhere is the mailing list described
as a users mailing list, unless somebody at Nabble has messed up.  The
description on cygwin.com is quite clear that this is the right list for
nearly all Cygwin related topics.  And besides, it is trivially easy to
show that all the Cygwin developers follow this list closely because
there are hundreds if not thousands of messages by them in the archives.

Lighten up.  The guy got no responses for six weeks with maybe his first post to the list.  Additionally, the forum on Nabble is entitled "Cygwin Users".  A simple 'No, the devs do in fact read this list' would suffice.