Greetings, Zube! >> This is how Cygwin works around certain incompatibilities between >> Windows and POSIX permission models. Do NOT fall into a trap >> and believe that Explorer trying to drag you to. The permissions >> are correct, it's just that Explorer is unable to deal with them, >> because all it knows is so-called "canonical" order.
> OK. >> If you want Windows behavior, use noacl flag on non-Cygwin mounts. > Thank you. As you might have seen in my follow-up, it was simply > a change in behavior that I wasn't expecting. Now that I expect > it, I can certainly set the execute bit on whatever executables > I download. Yeah, that caught me not once, too, on new installations. But I was expecting something like that, knowing how Cygwin handles file permissions in general. (Read: same as Linux.) The actual fix in each case depends on the typical usage of a given Cygwin install. There's no silver bullet. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, June 23, 2016 15:23:31 Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple