X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44A42AB1.2060407@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:32:01 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060112 Fedora/1.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Random Permissions Changes References: <44A40714 DOT 9040907 AT obbligato DOT org> <44A41356 DOT 8040507 AT cygwin DOT com> <44A41E60 DOT 6090403 AT obbligato DOT org> In-Reply-To: <44A41E60.6090403@obbligato.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com David Greene wrote: > Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >> Windows apps like to set the execute bit on files. Have any of the >> files you see this issue with been manipulated by Windows apps? > > I don't think so. I've viewed directories in explorer. Would > that do it? No. Just viewing the files in the file system is not enough to change the permissions. You'd need to have some app actually save the files in question, though changing the contents would not be required. You mentioned that this is a share. Does anyone else have access to it? If so, could they be making changes to these files? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/