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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:36:19 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:

> In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a 
> "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable 
> permission bits would actually correspond to the executability
> of a file? I mean, an explorer-created empty file is definitely not
> executable - notably because it's empty.

The following line will remove unnecessary execute permissions on
all files under the pwd, in a cygwintelligent manner

CYGWIN=nontsec find . ! -perm -111 -print0 | env -u CYGWIN xargs -0 chmod a-x

Thanks for your tests, they confirm that Cygwin works as designed.
But we still don't know if the new design solves Christian Mueller's 
problems.

Pierre


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