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Re: (call-process ...) hangs in emacs


Ken Brown writes:
> I just checked /var/log/sshd.log.  (I hadn't thought to do that
> before.) The last message in it is, "/var/empty must be owned by root
> and not group or world-writable."  So the problem seems to be that
> /var/empty appears to sshd to be group writable under the latest
> snapshot.  This is the "downside" that Corinna mentioned.  What needs
> to be done to /var/empty to fix this?

You need to remove all ACL from the directory, either with setfacl or
(from cmd) icacls or even the security tab in Explorer.  Most likely
these are inherited from the parent directory of the Cygwin
installation.


Regards,
Achim.
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