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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:22:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: "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, 27 Jan 2003, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> 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
Thanx (I especially like the "cygwintelligent" part) :)

> 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.
The only one that can tell you that is Christian Mueller.
I would be more than willing, however, to do more tests (so here's another 
"wouldn't it be nice if..." ... there was a testsuite available (outside 
of the sources, and without having to compile Cygwin yourself).

The problem, in fact, is that I'd like to help out on Cygwin itself, but I 
don't have a copyright waiver and can't get one for the time being*, so I 
can only help out by testing stuff and reporting the results.

rlc

* long story: I got one from my old job just before they went bankrupt and 
I didn't have a job anymore (don't remember whether I actually got around 
to sending it in). I'm at my new job since a couple of months now, and 
they're not really the philantropic type. Some may recall that I was about 
to do some work on the fhandlers a while back - in fact, the only thing 
standing in the way was the copyright waiver... :|



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