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Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:40:10 +0100 (CET)
From:	Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.
> With ntsec on, stat() and friends report the permission bits set in
> the ACL.  I wouldn't want to see anything else.  The code using the
> mount info is only used when ntsec is off.
OK, thanx for the clarity :)

rlc


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