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Re: chmod -R 777*

From: RenÃ Berber <r dot berber at computer dot org>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:18:05 -0500
Subject: Re: chmod -R 777*
References: <loom.20100910T110231-310@post.gmane.org>

On 9/10/2010 4:04 AM, Yohann wrote:

[snip]
> Is there any way to check the proper permission configuration on windows XP or 
> to restore it?

Windows doesn't care about permissions, it uses 777 for everything, and
that is the default (everything has that permission, text, pictures,
music, zip archives, ...).

You don't need to change it, but if you do, you have to be careful to
keep executables with the executable permission, or they won't run.
-- 
RenÃ Berber



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