Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D78F98D.8080300@dufair.org> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:53:01 -0500 From: Jason Dufair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: Tab completion of exes - what am I doing wrong? References: <3D78BD22.3010404@dufair.org> <20020906152035.GE1964@tishler.net> <3D78DBEC.1090808@dufair.org> <20020906170803.GG1964@tishler.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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@postgresql.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. -- Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org http://www.dufair.org/ "Ad in classifieds: Pandora's Box (no box) $5" -- 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/