Re: [h-e-w] Lisp error using Mutt on Cygwin with NT Emacs Gnuserv

[Jason Rumney]

Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

> This for NT Emacs users. Any way to change the default permissions
> NT Emacs uses when saving a file?
>
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 ismaeval2  Domain Users  786 Jan 25 18:07 backtrace
>
> I think this has something to do with inherited ACL from the parent
> directory. This is pretty uncomfortable, It would be great that files
> saved by NT Emacs showed up properly umasked when seen from a Cygwin
> shell.
>  
Windows has no concept of a umask, it is something that Cygwin itself 
emulates, so you cannot expect files created by non-Cygwin programs to 
emulate umask in the same way.