Suddenly, all files have executable attribute bits set! -- Problem solved

James Shaw qumqam@yahoo.com
Tue Oct 15 12:34:00 GMT 2002


--- Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> wrote:
> > --- I (James Shaw) wrote:
> > The bug is that all files show up as executable!
> 
> This is because "ntsec" is now on by default, and
> Windows gives execute
> permission to everything that has read permission in
> its default ACLs.
> Either set CYGWIN=nontsec, or read up about ntsec in
> the Cygwin User Guide.

Hi Max,

Thanks, that was the config problem.  I've set CYGWIN
to nontsec and everything is back to normal.

Thanks again, James


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