Re: cygwin makes shared folders on vista

[nmehta <nmehta at cs dot caltech dot edu>]

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.
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