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On Jun 19 04:25, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
> 
> >> >>>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work
> >> >>>>around the problem?
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Most likely.  I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users
> >> >>>from their own stupidity.  If you use wget, you should know what you're
> >> >>>doing.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>How about you just give it a try?
> >> >>
> >> >> Er, I don't have this problem.  I wasn't the one reporting it.
> >> > Downloading setup.exe with wget has another problem. The downloaded
> >> > file is missing the +x bit, IIRC.
> >> 
> >> It's irrelevant for setup.exe.
> 
> > It's not.  Try to start any executable on a NTFS filesystem.  Remove
> > the executable bits from all entries in the ACL.  Try again.
> 
> Sure that will cause issues, but read quote from the start.
> If you download setup.exe using wget, it's unlikely you'll be unable to run
> it.
> You need to do some real tinkering first to prevent that.

I was solely referring to the common misconception that the execute bit
has no meaning for Windows excecutables.  Some people even think the
execute bit is just faked by Cygwin(*).  I can't let this go without
commenting on it.


Corinna


(*) which it is, but only on filesystems which don't support permissions
    at all, like FAT/FAT32.

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