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On 4/20/2012 1:47 PM, De-Jian Zhao wrote:

<snip>

Oh and...

> At least, *.exe does not respect or even is blind to the -x operation of
> Cygwin, as abovementioned.

Cygwin creates its Windows ACLs to support POSIX permisssions.  See the
Cygwin Users Guide for more: <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html>.

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Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
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