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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:42:55 -0500
From: Gabe Rosenhouse <gabriel DOT i DOT r AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Inheriting parent ACLs?
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Hello.  I have a couple questions regarding

> Windows Explorer will inherit the permissions of the
> parent directory by default, whereas Cygwin will always create a new set
> of ACLs (or, at least, I haven't found a way to make Cygwin directories
> inherit the parent's ACLs). 

from the recent thread "Re: Login behaviour oddities: won't run
.profile" (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-09/msg00966.html)

Is this behavior a feature or a bug?

Is there a global setting to cause every file and directory created in
Cygwin to simply inherit the Windows ACL of its parent directory?

Thank you.

Gabriel Rosenhouse

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