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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 08:01:59 -0400
From: Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin
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On 5/18/2010 7:45 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 5/17/2010 12:44 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 17/05/2010 16:44, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>> "The permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered, which may cause some
>>> entries to be ineffective."
>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid this issue?  Does anyone have an
>>> explanation as to what is going on here?  Thanks in advance.
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping
>>
>>     Basic answer is: They're meant to be in that order, ignore windows'
>> complaints, and don't let it "fix" them for you.
>>
>
> OK, thanks.   So, any reason why it would make emacs change the
> permissions on existing files?

I can't answer your question, but one solution would be to use Cygwin's 
emacs instead of the native windows emacs when working in a Cygwin 
environment.

Ken


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