permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Bill Hoffman
Hi, I have new Windows 7 machine with cygwin. I am running into some odd permission problems. When I edit files with windows emacs in a cygwin folder (c:/cygwin/home/username), the files end up with the execute bit on something like this: -rwxrwxr-x If I run explorer on the directory, and

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Korn
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.c

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-18 Thread Bill Hoffman
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?

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-18 Thread Ken Brown
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

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-18 Thread 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

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-18 Thread 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 ine

Re: permissions on dir are incorrectly ordered windows 7 and cygwin

2010-05-18 Thread Bill Hoffman
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. OK, I could use X11, but I would rather a native windows app. It just seems odd that the permissions would be so strange for native window