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 Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:39:39 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: For Corinna Executable bit in FAT Message-ID: <20030524173939.GB5141@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030524101049.GA19367@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 04:26:07PM -0700, Vikram Mehta wrote: >First thanx for ur reply.... >I hv seen ur name at lots of places in CYGWIN world. >I am glad u took the trouble of answering my rather basic question. > >But one thing.... >I tried one thingds suggested on the net. > >umount...... >mount -x ..... ....... > >With this I could set executable bit to a file. >Do u think it is the right approach. If you want to set the executable bit for everything below the mount point, then, yes, this is the right approach. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/