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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:58:58 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Delaying 1.3.21 [was Re: Winsock closesocket() problem] (FAQ alert)
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> Ok.  David, are you listening?  The very least the above should do no
> harm -- other than to make some header files executable.  I guess it
> really should be:
> 
> chmod -R a+x bin sbin usr/sbin usr/local/bin lib/gcc-lib/*.exe
> 
In addition the FAQ could also recommend:

CYGWIN=nontsec find . ! -perm -111 -print0 | env -u CYGWIN xargs -0 chmod a-x

That will use nontsec intelligence to remove x permissions from files
(under . above) that don't need it.

Pierre