Hello all, I've been happily using and programming under Cygwin for a couple of months. I suddenly noticed today that a bug has creeped up in my installation.
I'm writing here in the hopes that something is configured wrong / Windows is misbehaving. And that it can therefore be fixed. The bug is that all files show up as executable! If I ls -F, everything has a * after it (unless it is a directory or a symlink). Similarly, if I ls -l, all regular file permissions are -rwxrwxrwx!!! E.g. % ls -F code/hello Makefile* hello.c* hello.exe* hello.o (I just noticed, oddly enough that hello.o correctly has -rw-rw-rw permissions! Looking around my system, most files don't, e.g. link.url*, song.mp3*, all executable! Here is an oddity: it appears that something in the past has set all files to 'x' attributes, but if I create a new text file, it is correct. Hmmm....this is at least good news.) The file permissions appear to affect everything, obviously ls above, but also bash's file completion (which is _really_ annoying). I think it has just started happening, but obviously, I can't be absolutely sure. The only recent changes on my machine: Updated my cygwin packages and installed: inetutils, nano, ghostscript, enscript, wget Installed M$ Visual Studio.net Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this/ what approaches I should take to debug it? I'm not actually subscribed to this maillist, so although I will be checking the archives, I'd appreciate cc:'s to this address. Thanks for any help in solving this mystery, James Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- 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/