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Re: wget 1.17.x creates odd permissions on downloaded files


Greetings, Warren Young!

> On Jun 23, 2016, at 4:21 AM, Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:
>> 
>> Greetings, Warren Young!
>> 
>>>> 2) Examining the permissions on putty.exe, the first thing that
>>>> comes up is an error that reads:
>>>> 
>>>> "The permissions on putty.exe are incorrectly ordered, which may
>>>> cause some entries to be ineffective.â
>> 
>>> Thatâs Explorer saying that, not Cygwin, right?  Let Explorer fix it.
>> 
>> Do NOT do that. It'll screw Cygwin permission handling.

> Not necessarily.

> If you can restrict Cygwin to a known set of directories, you can use
> Cygwin-only permissions in those directories and let Windows do whatever it
> wants with everything else.

> Hereâs my fixperms script, which keeps both sides happy:

Overengineered.
Just use noacl mounts and you'll not have this problem again.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, June 23, 2016 21:16:43

Sorry for my terrible english...

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