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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>   
>> I use cygwin perl to create some html files from cygwin sh. When I then
>> later from cmd.exe (or cygwin sh) try to open one of these files from
>> the command line with
>>
>>    temp.html
>>
>> I get the error "Access denied". This does not happen if I use the same
>> trivial script from cmd.exe using ActiveState perl.
>>
>> There seem to be some problems with the ACL list for the created file.
>> It looks to me like a cygwin bug. Below are more details.
>>     
>
> It's not a bug, it's a feature. (tm)
>
> Cygwin-created files are not executable unless they are explicitly created
> with executable permissions on.  Perl doesn't do that, so you get a
> non-executable HTML file (and can't run this from CMD).  ActiveState perl
> lets Windows pick the file ACLs, which are usually based on directory
> inheritance.  To simulate this in Cygwin, use "CYGWIN=nontsec perl
> myscript.pl".
>
> That said, you can also achieve the same effect (i.e., launching the
> appropriate command for the file) by prepending "start" in cmd.exe or
> "cygstart" in a Cygwin shell, no matter what the permissions are (i.e.,
> use "start temp.html" or "cygstart temp.html").
> HTH,
> 	Igor
>   
Many thanks for the quick and good explanations!

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