umask not taking?

[jdalton]

I noticed when I touch a.js it's created with the default permissions of -rwxrwxrwx and I'm wanting to change that to -rw-r--r--. I tried using umask 022 but it's not seeming to make a difference.

touch a.js
ls -l a.js
-rwxrwxrwx a.js
umask 022
touch b.js
ls -l b.js
-rwxrwxrwx b.js

[jdalton]

It looks like this is only an issue in folders in /mnt/c/ as umask is respected within my home directory.

[aseering]

I think this is a symptom of a more general issue -- AFAIK file permissions in general aren't fully supported on DrvFS (ie., /mnt/*)

[rodrymbo]

Well, NTFS file permissions are supported and enforced, they just aren't translated to the usual linux attributes. Apparently, the only way to find out if you have permission to do something (from within WSL) on a file in DriveFS is to try it and see if it works.

[neurogenesis]

@jdalton : this is possibly a duplicate of #352