On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote: > In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a > "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable > permission bits would actually correspond to the executability > of a file? I mean, an explorer-created empty file is definitely not > executable - notably because it's empty.
The following line will remove unnecessary execute permissions on all files under the pwd, in a cygwintelligent manner CYGWIN=nontsec find . ! -perm -111 -print0 | env -u CYGWIN xargs -0 chmod a-x Thanks for your tests, they confirm that Cygwin works as designed. But we still don't know if the new design solves Christian Mueller's problems. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
