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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:53:01 -0500
From: Jason Dufair <jase AT dufair DOT org>
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To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Tab completion of exes - what am I doing wrong?
References: <3D78BD22 DOT 3010404 AT dufair DOT org> <20020906152035 DOT GE1964 AT tishler DOT net> <3D78DBEC DOT 1090808 AT dufair DOT org> <20020906170803 DOT GG1964 AT tishler DOT net>

Jason Tishler wrote:

>My WAG is that your permissions for /bin are something like the
>following:
>
>    $ ls -ld /bin
>    drwx------    3 Administ None       212992 Sep  5 13:07 /bin
>
>Am I correct?  If so, then when setup.exe creates a file under /bin,
>Windows is causing it to inherit its parent directory's permissions.
>
>BTW, I helped someone on pgsql-cygwin AT postgresql DOT org with a different
>symptom but the same root cause.
>
>Jason
>
And again, thank you to you and all that offer help on this list.  And 
sorry about the off-list - didn't realize I'd done that.

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