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Re: NTEA extensions for uid/gid
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:30:35PM +0100, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> In any case, seeing the behaviour of the exec-permission bits, I have a
> "wouldn't it be nice if...": wouldn't it be nice if the executable
> permission bits would actually correspond to the executability
> of a file? I mean, an explorer-created empty file is definitely not
> executable - notably because it's empty.
The following line will remove unnecessary execute permissions on
all files under the pwd, in a cygwintelligent manner
CYGWIN=nontsec find . ! -perm -111 -print0 | env -u CYGWIN xargs -0 chmod a-x
Thanks for your tests, they confirm that Cygwin works as designed.
But we still don't know if the new design solves Christian Mueller's
problems.
Pierre
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