X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw6kgQmVyYmVy?= Subject: Re: chmod -R 777* Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:57:36 -0500 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 9/10/2010 11:18 AM, Ren=C3=A9 Berber wrote: > On 9/10/2010 4:04 AM, Yohann wrote: >=20 > [snip] >> Is there any way to check the proper permission configuration on windows= XP or=20 >> to restore it? >=20 > Windows doesn't care about permissions, it uses 777 for everything, and > that is the default (everything has that permission, text, pictures, > music, zip archives, ...). >=20 > You don't need to change it, but if you do, you have to be careful to > keep executables with the executable permission, or they won't run. Also dynamic libraries need the executable bits to be used... just ran into that one. Windows sort of cares about permissions, probably that's why the default is 777. --=20 Ren=C3=A9 Berber -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple