permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 5/18/2010 11:49 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

No.  Install Cygwin's emacs-X11 package, and then you can run emacs 
under X11.  Just type 'emacs &' in an xterm window, and emacs will open 
in a new window.

Ken

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