X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44A42AB1.2060407@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:32:01 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Random Permissions Changes References: <44A40714.9040907@obbligato.org> <44A41356.8040507@cygwin.com> <44A41E60.6090403@obbligato.org> In-Reply-To: <44A41E60.6090403@obbligato.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David Greene wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >> Windows apps like to set the execute bit on files. Have any of the >> files you see this issue with been manipulated by Windows apps? > > I don't think so. I've viewed directories in explorer. Would > that do it? No. Just viewing the files in the file system is not enough to change the permissions. You'd need to have some app actually save the files in question, though changing the contents would not be required. You mentioned that this is a share. Does anyone else have access to it? If so, could they be making changes to these files? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/