Re: permissions on .exe files

2006-07-24 Thread Hemal Pandya
Thanks for your response , Igor. On 7/21/06, Igor Peshansky wrote: On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Hemal Pandya wrote: > Hello, > > If I create a file somefile.exe "outside cygwin" then cygwin reports > that it is executable. But if the file is created by cygwin then it > does not become executable unless

Re: permissions on .exe files

2006-07-21 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Frank Fesevur wrote: > Hemal Pandya wrote: > > One implication of this is that when I extract a .zip using cygwin > > unzip then the .exe, .dll, .bat etc do not get the executable > > permission. > > I'm experiencing similar problems when I download an .exe with wget. > Since

Re: permissions on .exe files

2006-07-21 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Hemal Pandya wrote: > Hello, > > If I create a file somefile.exe "outside cygwin" then cygwin reports > that it is executable. But if the file is created by cygwin then it > does not become executable unless explicitly set. This is correct and expected behavior. > One implic

Re: permissions on .exe files

2006-07-21 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 21 11:00, Frank Fesevur wrote: > Hemal Pandya wrote: > >If I create a file somefile.exe "outside cygwin" then cygwin reports > >that it is executable. But if the file is created by cygwin then it > >does not become executable unless explicitly set. > > > >One implication of this is that when

Re: permissions on .exe files

2006-07-21 Thread Frank Fesevur
Hemal Pandya wrote: If I create a file somefile.exe "outside cygwin" then cygwin reports that it is executable. But if the file is created by cygwin then it does not become executable unless explicitly set. One implication of this is that when I extract a .zip using cygwin unzip then the .exe, .

permissions on .exe files

2006-07-20 Thread Hemal Pandya
Hello, If I create a file somefile.exe "outside cygwin" then cygwin reports that it is executable. But if the file is created by cygwin then it does not become executable unless explicitly set. One implication of this is that when I extract a .zip using cygwin unzip then the .exe, .dll, .bat etc