Re: Cygwin 1.7 new install /bin permissions

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On May 12 21:08, Karl M wrote:
> 
> Hi All...
>  
> On a new 1.7 install I noticed
>  
> $ find /bin -perm 644 -print
> /bin/d2u.exe
> /bin/dos2unix.exe
> /bin/gawk-3.1.6.exe
> /bin/perlthanks5.10.0
> /bin/pgawk-3.1.6.exe
> /bin/pstruct5.10.0
> /bin/s2p5.10.0
> /bin/u2d.exe
> /bin/unix2dos.exe
> /bin/zipinfo.exe

This looks like a bug in setup.exe when creating permissions for files
being hardlinks to other files.  So far setup.exe does not create them
as hardlink, but as copy of the original instead.  Apparently it misses
to copy the permissions correctly.  I'll take a look.


Thanks,
Corinna

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