Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:08:03 -0400 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Tab completion of exes - what am I doing wrong? In-reply-to: <3D78DBEC.1090808@dufair.org> To: Jason Dufair Cc: Cygwin Mail-followup-to: Jason Dufair , Cygwin Message-id: <20020906170803.GG1964@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <3D78BD22.3010404@dufair.org> <20020906152035.GE1964@tishler.net> <3D78DBEC.1090808@dufair.org> Jason, Please keep your replies on-list. On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:46:36AM -0500, Jason Dufair wrote: > Wow. Thanks. You are welcome. > Why does that happen? See below... > Did I cause these files to be 700 somehow, No. > or is this by design? Yes, but by Microsoft's design not Cygwin's. > Just wondering. Many thanks My WAG is that your permissions for /bin are something like the following: $ ls -ld /bin drwx------ 3 Administ None 212992 Sep 5 13:07 /bin Am I correct? If so, then when setup.exe creates a file under /bin, Windows is causing it to inherit its parent directory's permissions. BTW, I helped someone on pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org with a different symptom but the same root cause. Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/