default install, all executables have executable bit on but [ -x script ] fails.. SOLVED

[Ron Arts]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Ron Arts <raarts@netland.nl> writes:
> 
> 
>>This probably is a newbie question, I searched the FAQ and the mailinglists
>>but could not find anything.
> 
> 
> Looks like an unidentified bug.  See:
> 
>     http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg02400.html
> 
> Greetings,
> Jan.
> 

Indeed. But I found the cause. For security we remove a lot of permissions
from the default windows install. For example we remove Everyone permission
on C:\. Well, you'd better create a directory c:\cygwin manually and
give it the default windows permissions before installing the Cygwin
environment, or you'll get very strange results...

Ron

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