permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

[Bill Hoffman]

On 5/18/2010 8:01 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 5/18/2010 7:45 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>> On 5/17/2010 12:44 PM, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 17/05/2010 16:44, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>>
>>>> "The permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered, which may cause some
>>>> entries to be ineffective."
>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid this issue? Does anyone have an
>>>> explanation as to what is going on here? Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping
>>>
>>> Basic answer is: They're meant to be in that order, ignore windows'
>>> complaints, and don't let it "fix" them for you.
>>>
>>
>> OK, thanks. So, any reason why it would make emacs change the
>> permissions on existing files?
>
> I can't answer your question, but one solution would be to use Cygwin's
> emacs instead of the native windows emacs when working in a Cygwin
> environment.
>
But that is only tty based right?  I really need a windowed tool to work 
with.

-Bill

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