File permission problems with new cygwin dll

[Ross Smith]

I just upgraded to the new cygwin dll and gcc, and I seem to be running
into some of the same problems reported by others. (Yes, I know ntsec
is now enabled by default.)

First problem: chmod doesn't work. Whenever I try to use it, I just get
"chmod: changing permissions of `foo': Invalid argument".

Second problem: gcc doesn't set execute permission on the .exe files it
creates.

For the moment I've "solved" the problems by switching off ntsec
(CYGWIN=nontsec in the system variables), so I don't urgently need a
solution. I've seen other people report similar problems, but nobody
has suggested a solution (at least to the ones that weren't due to
simple ignorance of ntsec).

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